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“You’ll never get it if you don’t slow down, my friend”: towards a rhythmanalysis of the everyday in the cinema of Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant

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posted on 2019-06-20, 16:20 authored by Brian JarvisBrian Jarvis
This essay offers close readings of films by the independent US directors Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant with a particular focus on their slow-paced representation of everyday life. Building on the work of Henri Lefebvre, the author proposes that so-called “slow cinema” can be read not simply as an aesthetic choice, but as an alternative and potentially oppositional rhythm in the era of fast capitalism.

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  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • English and Drama

Published in

Journal of American Studies

Volume

54

Issue

2

Pages

385-406

Citation

JARVIS, B., 2019. “You’ll never get it if you don’t slow down, my friend”: towards a rhythmanalysis of the everyday in the cinema of Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant. Journal of American Studies, 54(2), pp. 385-406.

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2019-05-31

Notes

This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of American Studies https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875818001421. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies.

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0021-8758

eISSN

1469-5154

Language

  • en

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