ID - 119323140 TI - The sense of place in contemporary cinema AU - Maury, Corinne AU - Guévremont, Francis PY - 2022 SN - 9781399501415 9781399501422 9781399501392 1399501410 1399501429 1399501399 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Film KW - Thematology KW - Motion pictures KW - Setting and scenery. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119323140 AB - What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Bruno Dumont, Avi Mograbi, Philippe Grandrieux, and Sharunas Bartas chose not to focus solely the cinematic narration on the fate of the characters. They showed telluric spatialities, inhabited territories, existential matrices where ways of doing and of living were mobilised, where forces of emancipation and existential weaknesses were carried out. Welcoming rooms, remarkable transitions, havens for individual and communal destinies: place in cinema sometimes implies the insecurity of an unfinished project, sometimes the solidity of fortifications. This book demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film. ER -