{"product_id":"tsai-ming-liang-and-a-cinema-song-hwee-lim-9780824836849","title":"Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural \"slow movement\"? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the world over the past two decades. This is the first book to examine the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProviding a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, Song Hwee Lim offers insight into cinematic slowness through the films of the Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang. Through detailed analysis of aspects of stillness and silence in cinema, Lim delineates the strategies by which slowness in film can be constructed. By drawing on writings on cinephilia and the films of directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, he makes a passionate case for a slow cinema that calls for renewed attention to the image and to the experience of time in film. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness will speak to readers with an interest in art cinema, queer studies, East Asian culture, and the question of time. In an age of unrelenting acceleration of pace both in film and in life, this book invites us to pause and listen, to linger and look, and, above all, to take things slowly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Song Hwee Lim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824836847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824836849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 5.99w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 264","brand":"Song Hwee Lim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44130141241599,"sku":"9780824836849","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c91b542-aabc-4f74-a0d4-5fb6f45e50d3.jpg?v=1687467790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tsai-ming-liang-and-a-cinema-song-hwee-lim-9780824836849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}