Emergence of Cinematic Time Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

Name: Emergence of Cinematic Time Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
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ISBN: 9780674007840

ISBN-10: 0674007840

ISBN-13: 9780674007840

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mary Ann Doane

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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. …

Book details

Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/27/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




The Representability of Time



Temporality, Storage, Legibility: Freud, Marey, and the Cinema



The Afterimage, the Index, and the Accessibility of the Present



Temporal Irreversibility and the Logic of Statistics



Dead Time, or the Concept of the Event



Zeno's Paradox: The Emergence of Cinematic Time



The Instant and the Archive


Notes


Bibliography


Index