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At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators / / Jean Ma



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Autore: Ma Jean Visualizza persona
Titolo: At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators / / Jean Ma Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: University of California Press, 2022
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2022]
©2022
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43/653
Soggetto topico: Art and motion pictures
Dreams in motion pictures
Motion picture audiences
Sleep - Psychological aspects
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Soggetto non controllato: sleep; film; dreams in motion pictures; art
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Turn to Sleep -- 2 Sleep Must Be Protected -- PART I: REGARDING SLEEP -- 3 Into the Dark -- 4 Exiting and Entering Early Cinema -- 5 Somnolent Journeys -- 6 Insensate Intimacies -- PART II: SLEEPING REGARD -- 7 The Regressive Thesis -- 8 Narcotic Reception -- 9 A Little History of Sleeping at the Movies -- 10 Zoning Out -- 11 Circadian Cinemas -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in relation to people, places, and the past. Defined positively, sleep also expands our understanding of reception beyond the binary of concentration and distraction. These possibilities converge in the work of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has explored the subject of sleep systematically throughout his career. In examining Apichatpong’s work, Jean Ma brings together an array of interlocutors—from Freud to Proust, George Méliès to Tsai Ming-liang, Weegee to Warhol—to rethink moving images through the lens of sleep. Ma exposes an affinity between cinema, spectatorship, and sleep that dates to the earliest years of filmmaking, and sheds light upon the shifting cultural valences of sleep in the present moment.
Titolo autorizzato: At the Edges of Sleep  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-38452-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910591162103321
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