Translating Time : Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lim, Bliss Cua
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941.
Tijd.
Filmkunst.
Zeit > Motiv
Fantastischer Film
Time in motion pictures.
Horror films.
Fantasy films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique.
Temps au cinema.
Films fantastiques > Histoire et critique.
Horror films > History and criticism.
Fantasy films > History and criticism.
Asien
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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