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Rosa Barotsi
The Politics of Cinematic Time
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| Part of Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema Containing: |
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| Introduction |
| A Slow Revolution? |
| Time |
| The Everyday |
| The Politics of Cinematic Time |
| Conclusion |
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The Politics of Cinematic Time
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Rosa Barotsi
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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8 July 2025
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© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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225
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290
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Rosa Barotsi, Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema, Cultural Inquiry, 34 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 225–90
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Cite as:
Rosa Barotsi, ‘The Politics of Cinematic Time’, in Rosa Barotsi, Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema, Cultural Inquiry, 34 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 225-90 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-34_04>