{"product_id":"at-the-edges-of-sleep-moving-images-and-somnolent-spectators-paperback","title":"At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Ma\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. \u003ci\u003eAt the Edges of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in relation to people, places, and the past. Defined positively, sleep also expands our understanding of reception beyond the binary of concentration and distraction. These possibilities converge in the work of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has explored the subject of sleep systematically throughout his career. In examining Apichatpong's work, Jean Ma brings together an array of interlocutors--from Freud to Proust, George Méliès to Tsai Ming-liang\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Weegee to Warhol--to rethink moving images through the lens of sleep. Ma exposes an affinity between cinema, spectatorship, and sleep that dates to the earliest years of filmmaking, and sheds light upon the shifting cultural valences of sleep in the present moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving with ease across historical contextualization, theoretical inquiry, and the close reading of a broad corpus of films and other cultural objects, Jean Ma both sheds new light on canonical texts and takes on urgent contemporary debates pertaining to corporeality, slowness, attention, and cinematic relocation. A true pleasure to read.--Erika Balsom, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAt the Edges of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptionally strong piece of scholarship. It is intellectually ambitious, erudite across a number of fields, poetically written yet lucid, and both historically informed and deeply attuned to our own moment.\"--Karen Redrobe, author of \u003ci\u003eCrash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wow. This book is a unique sensational performance as Jean Ma unpacks the aesthetic and possibilities for sleep as a critical practice in contemporary moving image culture. It's downright groundbreaking in its far-ranging and far-reaching insights.\"--Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Ma\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904534233336,"sku":"9780520384514","price":64.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/VzJ5NjUzUU94SWtZaDJILzVjU3d3UT09.webp?v=1768924579","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/at-the-edges-of-sleep-moving-images-and-somnolent-spectators-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}