Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness

Index

205 Adair, Gilbert, 73, 167n.34 aesthetics, 9, 12, 17, 24, 25, 27, 31, 35, 59, 78, 89, 119, 148–149, 151, 154–155, 167n.2; politics of, 32–34, 40; of silence, 120–121, 127; of slowness, 13, 36–39, 41–42, 152; temporal aesthetics of drifting, 111, 111, 115 Agacinski, Sylvaine, 66 Aiqing wansui. See Vive l’amour Akerman, Chantal, 9, 14, 16, 78, 93, 133, 162n.34, 174n.9 Alonso, Lisandro, 14, 41 Ambush (John Frankenheimer), 158n.8 American Beauty (Sam Mendes), 103 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), 28 Andrew, Dudley, 12, 23, 58, 154– 155; on art cinema, 11, 27, 34; on authorship, 43, 45, 50, 54 Angelopoulos, Theo, 14, 41, 84 Antoine et Colette (François Truffaut), 166n.29 Antonioni, Michelangelo, 9, 19, 20, 42, 45, 56, 65, 78, 106, 120, 126, 164n.13, 174n.9 Appadurai, Arjun, 3, 27 art cinema: and class, 24–28, 32–33, 149; and slow cinema, 11–12, 24–30, 32–34, 36, 41, 60, 93, 149; and spectatorship, 24, 28–29, 31; and Taiwan cinema, 47–48, 149 art gallery, 38–39, 150, 161n.25 Astruc, Alexandre, 54 Atun, Norman, 74, 97, 104, 112 aurality, 101, 120, 122, 124, 127, 129, 133, 135–136; in The Wayward Cloud, 137–139, 139. See also sound auteur theory, 43, 46, 50. See also politique des auteurs, la authorship, 9, 34, 40, 42, 43, 45–47, 47, 49, 54–56, 60, 64, 65, 112, 117, 140, 165n.15, 165n.18. See also signature avant-garde, 9, 38, 57, 78, 149, 161n.25 index Page numbers in boldface type refer to illustrations. 206 index Avatar (James Cameron), 34 average shot length (ASL), 89, 158n.1, 167n.2; David Bordwell on, 6, 78, 85, 86, 87, 89, 167n.2, 169n.10; Hollywood’s, 6, 79; Hou Hsiao-hsien’s, 84–89; Tsai Mingliang ’s, 78–79, 81, 84–89, 168n.5 L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni), 20 Barthes, Roland, 49, 75, 167n.37 Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas), 175n.16 Bazin, André, 18, 19, 21, 29, 38, 154, 168n.4. See also long take Beat the Devil (Tony Scott), 158n.8 Beautiful Duckling (Lee Hsing), 141 Beck, Jay, 116–117 Beckett, Samuel, 150, 173n.4, 176n.2 Bed and Board (François Truffaut), 166n.29 Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski), 125 Bergman, Ingmar, 42, 56, 65, 120 Betz, Mark, 25, 26, 63, 160n.12, 164n.13 Bíro, Yvette, 15–16, 36, 159n.7, 160n.15 Blue Angel, The (Josef von Sternberg), 73 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), 136 Bordwell, David, 22, 26, 82, 84, 89, 160n.10, 169n.15; on average shot length, 6, 78, 85, 86, 87, 89, 167n.2, 169n.10; on intensified continuity, 6 boredom, 3, 28–29, 37, 41, 173n.5; and spectatorship, 16, 20, 24, 28–31. See also duration Bourdieu, Pierre, 25 Bourne Supremacy, The (Paul Greengrass), 6 Brecht, Bertolt, 154 Bresson, Robert, 78 Brighter Summer Day, A (Edward Yang), 166n.25 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), 18–19, 160n.9 Buddhism, 107–108, 112, 114 Busan. See Goodbye, Dragon Inn Cage, John, 119, 135 Cahiers du Cinéma, 46, 59–61, 63, 122–123, 166n.26 camera distance, 1, 21, 79–80, 93, 129, 130–131. See also close-up; long shot camera movement, 30, 79–80; in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, 85–88; tracking shot, 10, 78, 79, 86, 93, 111, 129, 130–131, 172n.37; in Tsai Ming-liang’s films, 79–81, 84–91, 168n.5, 169n.19; in Vive l’amour, 127–129, 130–131. See also long take Campany, David, 77–78, 80, 81, 167n.1 Camper, Fred, 119–120 Cape No. 7 (Wei Te-sheng), 48 celluloid, 9, 12, 57, 82–83, 168n.6 Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC), 61, 62, 123 Ceylan, Nuri Bilge, 19, 120 Chan, Kenneth, 66–67, 105, 166nn.30–31 index 207 Chang, Grace, 141 Chao Yee-hao, Sissey, 147–148, 175n.23 Chaplin, Charlie, 109 Charney, Leo, 105, 110, 113 Chen Chao-jung, 51; in Rebels of the Neon God, 136; in Vive l’amour, 126 Chen Shiang-chyi, 51, 173n.6; in Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 44, 68, 96–97, 175n.15; in I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, 97; in The Skywalk Is Gone, 50, 51, 52, 53, 152–154, 153; in What Time Is It There?, 63, 104, 105, 107, 135, 169n.18, 171n.30, 172n.31; in The Wayward...