The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781399501392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

MAURY CORINNE

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Introduction

Part I: Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism

1. Blow Up My Town, everyday rowdiness 

2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion

3. From cities to walls, a local change of scenery

Part II: The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations

4. Avi Mograbi, The Political Workshop

5. A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble Life

Part III: The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site 

6. Philippe Grandrieux’s forest-matter: a multisensory place 

7. Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: the March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey

8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "Sacred Sobriety" of the Undergrowth

9. Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: the Dual Forest

Part IV: The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated10. Pasolini’s Vacant Lots

11. Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment

12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruins

Part V: The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men

14. Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places

15. Béla Tarr, Waiting Behind Barricades

16. Sharunas Bartas’ Undergrounds 

Epilogue
Table of figures
Bibliography