Beautifully Boring: Films Where 'Nothing Really Happens'

'Beautifully Boring': Exploring Social Class in 'Nothing Really Happens' films (but specifically looking at 'The Great Beauty' and 'Paterson')



Films referenced:
Paterson dir. Jim Jarmusch
The Great Beauty dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Her dir. Spike Jonze
Before Sunrise dir. Richard Linklater
Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
Columbus dir. Kogonada
Mary Janes Not A Virgin Anymore dir. Sarah Jacobson
Ladybird dir. Greta Gerwig
Blue Jay dir. Alexandre Lehmann
Napoleon Dynamite dir. Jared Hess
Bicycle Thief dir. Vittoria de Sica
Pierrot le Fou dir. Jean Luc-Godard
La Notte dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Le Rayon Vert dir. Eric Rohmer
Nomadland dir. Chloe Zhao
Rome, Open City dir. Roberto Rosselini
Hand of God dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Master of None dir. Aziz Ansari


Sources:
. Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action - Ira Jaffe
. The End of History and The Last Man - Fukuyama
. Slow Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema) - Tiago de Luca
. Asylums - Erving Goffman
. 'Jim Jarmusch's Paterson and the Myth of the Solitary Artist' - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/ric...
. 'Relationships in the Age of Consumerism' - http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scie...
. 'All the Small Things: Jim Jarmusch's Paterson' - https://brightlightsfilm.com/small-th...
. 'The Real-World Consequences of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cliche' - https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/arc...
. Art and Politics - Walter A. Davis
. The Gift - Lewis Hyde


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