The Long Take Critical Approaches [Hardcover]

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.

1.?Introduction 1. The Long Take: Critical Approaches.?-?John Gibbs and Douglas Pye.-?2. Introduction 2. The Long Take: Concepts, Practices, Technologies and Histories -?Steve Neale.-?3. Three long takes: Le Crime de M. Lange (Jean Renoir, 1935)?-?Douglas Pye.-?4. The Average Long Take?-?Christian Keathley.-?5. The Long Take in Five Women around Utamaro (Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1946)?-?Alexander Jacoby.-?6. Opening movements in Ophuls: long takes, leading characters and luxuries.?-?John Gibbs.-?7. Like Motion Pictures: Long Take Staging in Vincente Minnellis Bells Are?Ringing (1960) -?Joe McElhaney.-?8. Roberto Rossellini Presents?-?Adam OBrien.-?9. Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jon Jost, 1977) -?Jim Hillier.-?10. To be in the Moment: On (Almost) Not Noticing Time Passing in Before Sunrise<lÃ%