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Translating time : cinema, the fantastic, and temporal critique /

"Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called "homogeneous, empty time" founds the modern notions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lim, Bliss Cua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Clocks for seeing : cinema, the fantastic, and the critique of homogeneous time
  • Modes of temporal critique : Bergsonism and postcolonial thought
  • The fantastic as temporal translation : aswang and occult national times
  • Spectral time, heterogeneous space : the ghost film as historical allegory
  • The ghostliness of genre : global Hollywood remakes the "Asian horror film"
  • Writing within time's compass : from epistemologies to ontologies.