At the edges of sleep : moving images and somnolent spectators /

"Many 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. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to...

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Author / Contributor: Ma, Jean, 1972- (Author)
Imprint: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the turn to sleep
  • Sleep must be protected
  • Into the dark
  • Exiting and entering early cinema
  • Somnolent journeys
  • Insentient intimacies
  • The regressive thesis
  • Narcotic reception
  • A little history of sleeping at the movies
  • Zoning out
  • Circadian cinemas.