The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema / / Corinne Maury.

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• VerfasserIn: Maury, Corinne,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.) :; 66 B/W illustrations 66 B&W images

Examines the purpose that place serves in filmsAnalyzes the importance of the notion of place in contemporary cinema, using in particular theories of space that were developed in the fields of geography and anthropology (landscapes, territories, site)Employs the various theories of space in cinema that have been developed since the 1960's, most particularly from a phenomenological point of viewIncludes European, North and South American, Russian and Asian contemporary filmsWhat purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Bruno Dumont, Béla Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub and Sharunas Bartas, chose not to focus solely the cinematic narration on the fate of the characters. They showed telluric spatialities, inhabited territories, existential matrices where ways of doing and of living were mobilized, where forces of emancipation and existential weaknesses were carried out. Welcoming rooms, remarkable transitions, havens for individual and communal destinies: place in cinema sometimes implies the insecurity of an unfinished project, sometimes the solidity of fortifications. The Sense of Place in Cinema demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Blow Up My Town: Everyday Rowdiness -- CHAPTER 2 Jeanne Dielman: Neurotic Seclusion -- CHAPTER 3 From Cities to Walls: A Local Change of Scenery -- Part 2 The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 4 Avi Mograbi: The Political Workshop -- CHAPTER 5 A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble Life -- Part 3 The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 6 Philippe Grandrieux’s Forest-matter: A Multisensory Place -- CHAPTER 7 Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: The March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey -- CHAPTER 8 Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The ‘Sacred Sobriety’ of the Undergrowth -- CHAPTER 9 Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: The Dual Forest -- Part 4 The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 10 Pasolini’s Wastelands -- CHAPTER 11 Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment -- CHAPTER 12 Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruin -- Part 5 The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 13 Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places -- CHAPTER 14 Béla Tarr: Waiting behind Barricades -- CHAPTER 15 Sharunas Bartas’s Undergrounds -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index