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Watch The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015) and discuss the film’s relevance to the discussion of slow cinema.

Contemporary world cinema

Matthew Flanagan. “Towards an Aesthetic of Slow in Contemporary Cinema” in 16:9* available here: http://www.16-9.dk/2008-11/side11_inenglish.htm
Ira Jaffe, “Long Shot: Distant and Climates” in Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action, London: Wallfower Press, 2014,

Tiago De Luc and Nuno Barradas Jorge (ed). Slow Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2016.
Lutz P. Koepnick. On Slowness: Toward and Aesthetic of the Contemporary New York Columbia University Press, 2014.

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Watch The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015) and discuss the film’s relevance to the discussion of slow cinema.

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