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The Aesthetics of Boredom: Slow Cinema and the Virtues of the Long Take in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Emre Caglayan

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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between boredom and cinema, particularly by attending to the ways in which it has been used as an aesthetic strategy in contemporary slow films. These films use long takes and dedramatization to create dead time, where narrative causality and progress are abandoned to facilitate contemplative viewing. The article argues that this mode of spectatorship exhibits close affinities to underlying features of boredom, and that filmmakers mute dramatic intensity and foreground idleness and ambiguity for a more aesthetically rewarding cinematic experience. The article explores this question through examining different types of boredom and dedramatization, before concluding with an extended analysis of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011).

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Author(s): Çaglayan E

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind

Year: 2016

Volume: 10

Issue: 1

Pages: 63-85

Print publication date: 01/06/2016

Acceptance date: 16/01/2016

ISSN (print): 1934-9688

ISSN (electronic): 1934-9696

Publisher: Berghahn

URL: https://doi.org/10.3167/proj.2016.100108

DOI: 10.3167/proj.2016.100108

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