The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema

Corinne Maury; Francis Guevremont

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Corinne Maury, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Translated by Francis Guevremont

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781399501415

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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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 and 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-12

Part 1 - Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism
pp 13-16

1 - Blow Up My Town: Everyday Rowdiness
pp 17-21

2 - Jeanne Dielman: Neurotic Seclusion
pp 22-28

3 - From Cities to Walls: A Local Change of Scenery
pp 29-42

Part 2 - The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations
pp 43-44

4 - Avi Mograbi: The Political Workshop
pp 45-60

5 - A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble Life
pp 61-72

Part 3 - The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site
pp 73-74

6 - Philippe Grandrieux’s Forest-matter: A Multisensory Place
pp 75-82

7 - Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: The March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey
pp 83-89

8 - Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The ‘Sacred Sobriety’ of the Undergrowth
pp 90-102

9 - Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: The Dual Forest
pp 103-110

Part 4 - The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated
pp 111-114

10 - Pasolini’s Wastelands
pp 115-123

11 - Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment
pp 124-133

12 - Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruins
pp 134-144

Part 5 - The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men
pp 145-146

13 - Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places
pp 147-158

14 - Béla Tarr: Waiting behind Barricades
pp 159-166

15 - Sharunas Bartas’s Undergrounds
pp 167-176

Epilogue
pp 177-179

Bibliography
pp 180-187

Index
pp 188-198

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