Downtime : The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goble, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Biography/History:

Mark Goble is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (Columbia, 2010).

Summary:

Downtime explores the history and aesthetics of slow motion, from its origins in early film to its prominence today.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Slow Motion, Very Quickly

Part I: A Theory in Slow Motion

1. At the Movies to the End of Time

2. Almost Freeze Frame

3. From Zero to Slow

4. Experiments in Time

5. Slow-Motion Modernism

6. Escape Velocities

7. Technological Aesthetics

8. New Media, Slow Media

9. What We See in Slow Motion

Part II: Modernity at Any Speed

10. Some Literary Histories of Slow Motion

11. Modernity's Slow Start

12. Faulkner at the Speed Limit

13. Snopes at Rest

14. Remainder's Instant Replays

15. Austerlitz's Traumatic Pauses

16. Being in Racial Time: Daughters of the Dust

17. We Have Always Been in Slow Motion: The Discovery of Slowness

18. DeLillo, Slowing Down

19. From 9/11 to JFK in Slow Motion

20. Underworld: How Slow Is Now?

21. A "Sixties Incandescence": Periodizing Slow Motion

Part III: Forever '68

22. Bonnie and Clyde and Slow and Fast

23. Posthistoric Prehistoric Modernism: 2001: A Space Odyssey

24. How the West Slows Down: Sergio Leone and the Long Struggle

25. The Wild Bunch, or the Pains of Being Sam Peckinpah

26. Antonioni's Art of Excess: Zabriskie Point

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Color Illustrations.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-231-56254-3

OCLC:

1521496414