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Chinese Slow Cinema: A New Filmic Rhythm and a Cinematic Conscience Exploring Notions of Time, History, Memory, Absence, and Allegory in the Works of Chinese Auteurs

Volume 19, Number 1, January/February 2020
by Rebecca Catching


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Rebecca Catching introduces the Slow Cinema movement, a genre in filmmaking completely alien to commercial movie spectacles and that demands viewers to immerse themselves in scenarios often in real time and focus on mundane details. Within this specialized form of filmmaking, Catching locates Chinese filmmakers within a structural process that is international in scope but local in subject matter.


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Rebecca Catching, Chinese slow cinema, time, history, memory, absence, allegory, Chinese auteurs