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How Long Is “Novel City”?

Name: Novel City
Released: 2008
Duration: 8 min

8m runtime

20088m

film with a runtime of 8 minutes, released in 2008. Presented in English.

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Runtime8m

Minutes8

One SittingYes

With Break20m

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In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist spectacle" that was "intended to bring about a critical self-response, a simultaneous attraction and repulsion that provoke an instance of cultural self-awareness." In her new work, Thornton confronts the economic and cultural transformation of contemporary China, evoking a new spectacle of capitalism run amok. Thornton shoots from her window of the Jin Jiang Hotel in Shanghai, the site of Mao's 1972 meeting with Nixon, and projects images from the earlier movie, creating a layered landscape of alienation and dislocation._x000D_ - Description from EAI.

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Runtime8m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break20m

Movie Facts

Release Year2008

Runtime8m

LanguageEnglish

DirectorLeslie Thornton

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