Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

(Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book Series)

by Bliss Cua Lim

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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notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded.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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822345102

ISBN13:9780822345107

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.31 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Arts, Music & Photography History Performing Arts

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Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

(Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book Series)

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