The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Anik Sarkar, Jayjit Sarkar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83764-513-8 (ISBN)

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Delving into Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, this book uncovers a plethora of conceptual paradigms. The book delves into a range of lesser-explored aspects regarding the films and filmmaking of Apichatpong, developing fresh perspectives on the representation of nonhumans, hybrid forms, transmedia plot, technique, production among others.

Delving into Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, this book uncovers a plethora of conceptual paradigms. Apichatpong's films frequently utilize rural Thailand as a backdrop, showcasing daily life, interactions, rituals, and customs, all infused with a Southeast Asian essence. This utilization of local imagery provides a national quality to his works, allowing a global audience to explore both urban and rural aspects of Thai society, along with discourses on history, culture, politics, and practices. Beyond the surface, the films also address universal and intricate themes, transcending cultural boundaries. The book delves into a range of lesser-explored aspects regarding the films and filmmaking of Apichatpong, developing fresh perspectives on the representation of nonhumans, hybrid forms, transmedia plot, technique, production among others. With meticulous analyses of his key works this interdisciplinary study unveils the threads that bind Apichatpong’s creative practice, innovative techniques, and philosophical insights. An essential read for cinephiles, scholars, and seekers of cinematic depth, this book uncovers the vibrant tapestry of meaning within Apichatpong’s enigmatic film-worlds.

Anik Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Salesian College Siliguri. He has contributed to books such as Environmental Postcolonialism (Lexington Books, 2021), Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2022) and the book shortlisted for the recent BSLS book prize: Science Fiction in India (Bloomsbury, 2022). He recently published “In Search of a Pathographical Ecopoetics” in the Journal of Ecohumanism, and has a forthcoming monograph titled Fabulating Ecologies (Lexington Books). Jayjit Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of the monograph Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019). He is also the co-editor of books such as Border and Bordering: Poetics, Politics, Precariousness (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2020) and The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021). He has also written for India Independent Films Live Wire, Newslaundry, and We the World magazine.

Acknowledgements

Introduction Open Cinema: The Films and Installations of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Anik Sarkar and Jayjit Sarkar

Time

1.Time, Social Reproduction and the Precarious Body in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Patricia Sequeira Brás

2.Representing Memory through Slowness: the Time-Images of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century and Cemetery of Splendour

Francesco Quario

Non-human

3.Stray Dogs and Strange Beasts: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Queer Animal Ethics

Duncan Caillard

4.Imagining the Nonhuman in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Çağatay Emre Doğan

Mind

5.The Stillness Wandering Within: Notes on the Caesura of the Cinematic Image in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive Project

Elizabeth Sikes

6.Dreams, Abstractions and Spectatorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Films and Videos

Alessandro Ferraro

7.EFFULGENCES Particles in Motion: Cycling the Mindscapes of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Jeffner Allen

Forms and Representations

8.Transmedia Plot in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive

Jade de Cock de Rameyen

9.Home Away From Home: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Filmed Images of Home and Homeland Envisioned

Palita Chunsaengchan

10.Between an Erased Past and an Uncertain Future: Hybrid Forms in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Sivaranjini

11.Post-Interstitial Authorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema

Anchalee Chaiworaporn

Note on the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83764-513-2 / 1837645132
ISBN-13	978-1-83764-513-8 / 9781837645138
Zustand	Neuware