Dr Corinne Maury is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She is the author of several books in French, including Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles, de Chantal Akerman (2020), Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain (2018), Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011); L'Attrait de la pluie (2013). She is the co-editor of Filmer les frontières (2016), Béla Tarr, De la colère au tourment (2016), Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud: à l’œuvre (2016) and Écrire l’analyse de film. Un enjeu pour l’esthétique (2019).

Corinne Maury renews film studies in depth, revealing the inseparable aesthetic and political perspective of a cinematographic creation in tune with our tormented history. The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema is a truly engaged book that makes space an operator of duration, where images of spaces promote the conquest of an emancipated time or in the process of being so.

• IntroductionPart I: Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism1. Blow Up My Town, everyday rowdiness2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion3. From cities to walls, a local change of sceneryPart II: The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations4. Avi Mograbi, The Political Workshop5. A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble LifePart III: The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site6. Philippe Grandrieux’s forest-matter: a multisensory place7. Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: the March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "Sacred Sobriety" of the Undergrowth9. Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: the Dual ForestPart IV: The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated10. Pasolini’s Vacant Lots11. Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of RuinsPart V: The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men14. Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places15. Béla Tarr, Waiting Behind Barricades16. Sharunas Bartas’ UndergroundsEpilogue Table of figuresBibliography

Dr Corinne Maury is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She is the author of several books in French, including Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles, de Chantal Akerman (2020), Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain (2018), Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011); L'Attrait de la pluie (2013). She is the co-editor of Filmer les frontières (2016), Béla Tarr, De la colère au tourment (2016), Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud: à l’œuvre (2016) and Écrire l’analyse de film. Un enjeu pour l’esthétique (2019).

Corinne Maury renews film studies in depth, revealing the inseparable aesthetic and political perspective of a cinematographic creation in tune with our tormented history. The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema is a truly engaged book that makes space an operator of duration, where images of spaces promote the conquest of an emancipated time or in the process of being so.

• IntroductionPart I: Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism1. Blow Up My Town, everyday rowdiness2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion3. From cities to walls, a local change of sceneryPart II: The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations4. Avi Mograbi, The Political Workshop5. A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble LifePart III: The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site6. Philippe Grandrieux’s forest-matter: a multisensory place7. Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: the March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "Sacred Sobriety" of the Undergrowth9. Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: the Dual ForestPart IV: The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated10. Pasolini’s Vacant Lots11. Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of RuinsPart V: The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men14. Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places15. Béla Tarr, Waiting Behind Barricades16. Sharunas Bartas’ UndergroundsEpilogue Table of figuresBibliography

Dr Corinne Maury is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She is the author of several books in French, including Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles, de Chantal Akerman (2020), Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain (2018), Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011); L'Attrait de la pluie (2013). She is the co-editor of Filmer les frontières (2016), Béla Tarr, De la colère au tourment (2016), Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud: à l’œuvre (2016) and Écrire l’analyse de film. Un enjeu pour l’esthétique (2019).

Corinne Maury renews film studies in depth, revealing the inseparable aesthetic and political perspective of a cinematographic creation in tune with our tormented history. The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema is a truly engaged book that makes space an operator of duration, where images of spaces promote the conquest of an emancipated time or in the process of being so.

• IntroductionPart I: Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism1. Blow Up My Town, everyday rowdiness2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion3. From cities to walls, a local change of sceneryPart II: The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations4. Avi Mograbi, The Political Workshop5. A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble LifePart III: The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site6. Philippe Grandrieux’s forest-matter: a multisensory place7. Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: the March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "Sacred Sobriety" of the Undergrowth9. Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: the Dual ForestPart IV: The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated10. Pasolini’s Vacant Lots11. Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of RuinsPart V: The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men14. Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places15. Béla Tarr, Waiting Behind Barricades16. Sharunas Bartas’ UndergroundsEpilogue Table of figuresBibliography