Category: Books & Articles
Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image
August 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Something I genuinely love, now that I'm in France, is that I can walk into any book shop and I find amazing books that really...
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Film Spectatorship
June 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Something that has always fascinated me is film spectatorship in regards to Slow Cinema. While film spectatorship as a subject isn't entirely absent from research,...
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Autoportrait en cinéaste / Ma mère rit (Chantal Akerman)
April 4, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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In the last fortnight or so, I have read two books by Chantal Akerman. One of them, Autoportrait en cinéaste, is, in fact, a sort of...
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Art and Therapy (Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, 2014)
March 28, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong had been on my list from the moment I saw it online. With my research...
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Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016)
March 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Towards the end of my PhD research, I noticed that quite a few interesting works in my area have been published by Presses Universitaires de...
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Wang Bing – A filmmaker in today’s China (2014)
October 7, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I quite like how much material there is in France about Chinese director Wang Bing. I had always thought that he was as invisible academically...
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New books on Pedro Costa & Béla Tarr
August 12, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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The initial wave of I-want-to-be-the-first has subsided, and after quite a few not very good books on Slow Cinema or on slow-film directors, we're slowly...
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The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz
January 19, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Now that the PhD has been awarded, I’m happy to make my thesis, the first coherent study of the films of Lav Diaz, available for...
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Slow Cinema, ed by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (2015)
January 4, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I'm not sure where to start with this one. Not considering the content for a minute, the new and very first edited collection on Slow...
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