{"product_id":"slow-movies-ira-jaffe-9780231169790","title":"Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action","description":"\"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility,\" Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. \u003ci\u003eSlow Movies\u003c\/i\u003e investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ira Jaffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231169795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231169790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wallflower Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014 pg. 83","brand":"Ira Jaffe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131612000511,"sku":"9780231169790","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b75012a5-4853-4bcd-95d4-e84ac19104e3.jpg?v=1687475401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slow-movies-ira-jaffe-9780231169790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}