Description: Emergence of Cinematic Time : Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, Paperback by Doane, Mary Ann, ISBN 0674007840, ISBN-13 9780674007840, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity. At this book's heart is the cinema's essential paradox: temporal continuity conveyed through "stopped time," the rapid succession of still frames or frozen images. Doane explores the role of this paradox, and of notions of the temporal indeterminacy and instability of an image, in shaping not just cinematic time but also modern ideas about continuity and discontinuity, archivability, contingency and determinism, and temporal irreversibility. A compelling meditation on the status of cinematic knowledge, her book is also an inquiry into the very heart and soul of modernity.
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Book Title: Emergence of Cinematic Time : Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Emergence of Cinematic Time : Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Film / General, Time, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Science
Author: Mary Ann Doane
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
