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Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

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Description for Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique Paperback. Argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple 'immiscible' temporalities that strain against homogeneous time. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564. Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. 352 pages, 51 photographs. Argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple 'immiscible' temporalities that strain against homogeneous time. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight: 564.
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notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded.

In Translating Time, Bliss Cua Lim argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple “immiscible temporalities” that strain against the modern concept of homogeneous time. In ... Read more

Lim interweaves scholarship on visuality with postcolonial historiography. She draws on Henri Bergson’s understanding of cinema as both implicated in homogeneous time and central to its critique, as well as on postcolonial thought linking the ideology of progress to imperialist expansion. At stake in this project are more ethical forms of understanding time that refuse to domesticate difference as anachronism. While supernaturalism is often disparaged as a vestige of primitive or superstitious thought, Lim suggests an alternative interpretation of the fantastic as a mode of resistance to the ascendancy of homogeneous time and a starting-point for more ethical temporal imaginings.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822345107
SKU
V9780822345107
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About Bliss Cua Lim
Bliss Cua Lim is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
“Translating Time is vital, fresh, expansive, and exciting. A strikingly sophisticated thinker, Bliss Cua Lim argues that a linear and progressive understanding of historical time, and its practice of history and history-writing, domesticates other times into a manageable past marked as retrograde, primitive, and naïve. Lim denaturalizes such an understanding by bringing to the fore films (and traditions of storytelling ... Read more

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