The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema

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de Corinne Maury

Type: Essais
Sujet: Théorie
Mots Clés: lieux, paysage, théorie
Année d'édition: 2022
Editeur: Edinburgh University Press
Langue: anglais

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Relié • 208 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

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978-1-3995-0139-2

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Examines the purpose that place serves in films
• Analyzes 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 view
• Includes European, North and South American, Russian and Asian contemporary films

What 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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Dr Corinne Maury is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She is the author of several books in French, including Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles, de Chantal Akerman (2020), Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain (2018), Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011); L'Attrait de la pluie (2013). She is the co-editor of Filmer les frontières (2016), Béla Tarr, De la colère au tourment (2016), Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud: à l’œuvre (2016) and Écrire l’analyse de film. Un enjeu pour l’esthétique (2019).

Revue de Presse :
Corinne Maury renews film studies in depth, revealing the inseparable aesthetic and political perspective of a cinematographic creation in tune with our tormented history. The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema is a truly engaged book that makes space an operator of duration, where images of spaces promote the conquest of an emancipated time or in the process of being so.
– Dork Zabunyan, University of Paris

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