“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
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.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- English and Drama
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Journal of American StudiesVolume
54Issue
2Pages
385-406Citation
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.Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP) © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American StudiesVersion
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2019-05-31Notes
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.ISSN
0021-8758eISSN
1469-5154Publisher version
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