This is the first book in English exclusively devoted to the long take, one of the key elements of film style. Increasingly visible in contemporary international media, the long take currently attracts a good deal of attention in criticism and commentary. There are also significant strands of film theory in which duration has become a recurrent concern.

In keeping with the approach of Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television, this collection is devoted to the detailed critical analysis of specific long takes, explored in terms of how they function within their contexts, how they shape the visual field, the meanings they generate and the effects they create. The Long Take: Critical Approaches brings together essays by established and emerging scholars (all but one essay commissioned for this volume) in an exciting collection that analyses works from a range of filmmaking traditions, from the 1930s to the present day, selected to represent varied long take practices and to explore associated debates.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2017

ISBN

9781137585738

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Film & Video

The Long Take Critical Approaches
Introduction 1: The Long Take—Critical Approaches
Introduction 2: The Long Take—Concepts, Practices, Technologies, and Histories
Three Long Takes: Le Crime de M. Lange (Jean Renoir 1935)
The Average Long Take
Looking and Touching: The Long Take in Five Women Around Utamaro (Mizoguchi Kenji 1946)
Opening Movements in Ophuls: Long Takes, Leading Characters and Luxuries
Like Motion Pictures: Long Take Staging in Vincente Minnelli’s Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Roberto Rossellini Presents
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jon Jost 1977)
To Be in the Moment: On (Almost) Not Noticing Time Passing in Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater 1995)
Watching Cinema Disappear: Intermediality and Aesthetic Experience in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) and Stray Dogs (2013)
13 Ways of Looking at a Lake
The Artists’ Long Take as Passage in Sharon Lockhart’s Installation Lunch Break (2008)
The Search for Meaning in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2011)
Working Space: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón 2013) and the Digital Long Take
True Detective (2014), Looking (2014), and the Televisual Long Take
Index