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Translating time : cinema, the fantastic, and temporal critique / Bliss Cua Lim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Bliss Cua.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
- Bergson, Henri.
- Fantasy films--History and criticism.
- Fantasy films.
- Time in motion pictures.
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Clocks for seeing : cinema, the fantastic, and the critique of homogeneous time
- Modes of temporal critique : Bergsonism and postcolonial thought
- The fantastic as temporal translation : aswang and occult national times
- Spectral time, heterogeneous space : the ghost film as historical allegory
- The ghostliness of genre : global Hollywood remakes the "Asian horror film"
- Writing within time's compass : from epistemologies to ontologies.
- Notes:
- "John Hope Franklin Center book"
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064974
- 9781283064972
- 1283064979
- 9780822390992
- 082239099X
- OCLC:
- 492380550
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