How Long to Read Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness

How Long Does it Take to Read Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness by Song Hwee Lim

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How 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. Providing 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. Tsai 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.

How long is Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness?

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness by Song Hwee Lim is 242 pages long, and a total of 60,984 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness aloud.

What Reading Level is Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness?

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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