Translating Time - Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

Informationen zum Autor Bliss Cua Lim is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Klappentext Uses a postcolonial critique of the universality of historical time to propose a new way of considering the fantastic in cinema, a prevalent trope in much Asian and Southeast Asian film. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Clocks for Seeing: Cinema, the Fantastic, and the Critique of Homogeneous Time 1 1. Two Modes of Temporal Critique: Bergonism and Postcolonial Thought 43 2. The Fantastic as Temporal Translation: Aswang and Occult National Times 96 3. Spectral Time, Heterogeneous Space: The Ghost Film as Historical Allegory 149 4. The Ghostliness of Genre: Global Hollywood Remakes the "Asian Horror Film" 190 Epilogue. Writing within Time's Compass: From Epistemologies to Ontologies 245 Notes 253 Bibliography 305 Index 323

Product details

• Authors: Bliss Cua Lim
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2009
• EAN: 9780822344995
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4499-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous