Violating time
Subtitle: history, memory and nostalgia in cinema
By: edited by Christina Lee.
Contributors: Lee, Christina, 1976-
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780826429414
Subjects: Time in motion pictures; Memory in motion pictures
Description: "Violating Time explores "time" as a defining factor influencing our experiences and knowledge of events. Employing the metaphor of cinema as time machine, the book discusses the narrative and aesthetic possibilities opened up by disruptions to linear temporal logic. The authors investigate how tactical remembering and forgetting can destabilize narratives to create new geographies of time and space which can, quite literally, alter the course of history." "Violating Time draws from a spectrum of genres such as documentary, historic recreations, and science fiction. It argues that fictional and nonfictional representations of the past and projections of the future are not isolated commentaries of yesterday or tomorrow. Rather, they evoke our current cultural preoccupations; whether it is skepticism of nostalgia, the desire to rewrite history and travel through time, or post-millennial fears of disappearing memories and loss of identity. The book includes analyses of such films as The Filth and the Fury, All The President's Men, Run Lola Run, The Royal Tenenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bonnie Darko, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and 2046."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.