How Fast is Furious The Discourse of Fast Cinema in Question

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  • Carlo Comanducci Grupa Uczelni Vistula

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2021.26.02

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cinematic temporality, “fast” cinema, remediation, slowmotion, spectatorship

Abstrakt

Considered in its articulation with an idea of “slow” cinema, the label “fast cinema” suggests three characteristics: fast-paced action, hyperkinetic cinematic style, and irreflexive consumption. Not only does fast cinema suggest these three characteristics, however, it also suggests that they directly correspond to each other so that, in a “fast” film, fast-paced action would be seamlessly rendered through “fast” cinematic enunciation and this rendering would necessarily result in an escapist, ready-to-consume film product. It is more by this correspondence, I think, than by any of these elements on its own that a certain understanding of “fast” cinema is established.

Against this understanding, through a variety of contrasting examples, the article argues that the impression of fastness and that of slowness are both the matter of a tension between different temporalities and a complex combination of heterogeneous film elements, and that the articulation of “fast” and “slow” cinema itself depends less on the formal characteristics of different kinds of film than on a disciplinary understanding of spectatorship, which pretends to derive from these formal characteristics different and unequal forms of film experience.

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2021-10-19

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Comanducci, C. . (2021). How Fast is Furious The Discourse of Fast Cinema in Question. Panoptikum, (26), 39–60. https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2021.26.02

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