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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456816403321

Autore

Combs James E

Titolo

Movie time [[electronic resource] /] / by James Combs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2007

ISBN

1-282-19067-9

9786612190674

1-4438-0686-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

791.4309730945

Soggetti

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - United States - Plots, themes, etc

Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; NOTES; CHAPTER TWO; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; NOTES; CHAPTER THREE; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; NOTES; CONCLUSION; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Movie Time is a study of temporal mythmaking in American popular movies. The work is rooted in American pragmatic philosophy and contemporary traditions of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities. It proceeds on the premise that social beings and social orders are interested in the mediation of time, and attempt to make sense of their present world through the reconstruciton of important pasts of interest in the present, develop new presents with the help of popular expressions which ...