The emergence of cinematic time : modernity, contingency, the archive / Mary Ann Doane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doane, Mary Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

viii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-278) and index.

ISBN:

0674007298

0674007840

OCLC:

49625651