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“Staying on, or Getting off (the Bus): Approaching Speed in Cinema & Media Studies”

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:23 authored by Tina Kendall
While debates about ‘fast’ vs. ‘slow’ cinema have sometimes had a tendency to reinforce presumed dichotomies—between passive consumption and active viewing, Hollywood cinema and global auteur filmmaking, commercialization and art—they nevertheless help us to grasp the significance of speed as an increasingly significant facet of life in the 21st century, while reminding us that the affective and visceral attraction to speed was always one of cinema’s defining traits. A vital undertaking for ‘speed theorists’, then, consists in elucidating how notions of fastness or slowness emerge as complex forms of relationality, always in dialogue with a range of other speeds, temporal experiences, and forms of attention within a broader media ecology. This In Focus suggests entry points for analyzing speed as part of cinema’s long and varied history, and as an increasingly significant part of the social, political, and cultural landscape of the 21st century.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

55

Issue number

2

Page range

112-118

Publication title

Cinema Journal

Publisher

University of Texas Press

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-08-24

Legacy creation date

2016-08-22

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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