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Working Space: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón 2013) and the Digital Long Take

Author : Lisa Purse

Published in: The Long Take

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The digital long take has been celebrated as an expression of the artistic and technical virtuosity of today’s auteur directors, and derided as a betrayal of the Bazinian long take’s capacity for realism. This chapter will interrogate both perspectives, examining the digital long take’s highly mobile camera movement, and its relationship to questions of labour, aesthetics, and narrative, in a comparative analysis of two key long takes from Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013). It will suggest that Gravity’s characterisation of movement through space as laborious, and its gradual subversion of normative notions of vision and technology as superior forms of knowledge, construct a platform from which Gravity can explore alternative ways of negotiating the world of the film, and the digitally mediated world beyond it.

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Metadata
Title
Working Space: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón 2013) and the Digital Long Take
Author
Lisa Purse
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Long Take

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-58572-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-58573-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58573-8_15