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Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift
Leo Charney
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Description for Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift
Paperback. An innovative reconceptualization of the defining quality of modernity and how it relates to cinema and literary theory Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as “drift”—the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture’s preoccupation with the reproduction of the present.
Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust’s conception of time/memory with Cubism’s attempt to ... Read more
In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as “drift”—the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture’s preoccupation with the reproduction of the present.
Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust’s conception of time/memory with Cubism’s attempt to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822320906
SKU
V9780822320906
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About Leo Charney
Leo Charney is coeditor of Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life.
Reviews for Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift
“An intense and dazzling encounter with the effects that characterize modernism. This book is written with craft, insight, and care. Its creative form opens new and contemporary perspectives on the modernist past.”—Tom Conley, Harvard University “Elegant and interesting, Empty Moments will be widely and quickly recognized as a distinguished and important book.”—Ross Chambers, University of Michigan