Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema

Rosa Barotsi
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
Scheduled for 8 July 2025
This book examines the European component of Slow cinema, a strand of contemporary cinema that makes extensive use of distended durations and the ‘dead time’ of quotidian activities. I trace the development of the two notions that form its core — time and the everyday — in order to situate it both in film history and contemporary culture.
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