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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817269803321

Autore

Stewart Garrett

Titolo

Framed time : toward a postfilmic cinema / / Garrett Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-96657-6

0-226-77457-0

9786611966577

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Cinema and modernity

Disciplina

791.43/684

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Space and time in motion pictures

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 (p. 267-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : On Optical Allusion -- 1.Lexeme To Pixel : An Experiment In Narratography -- 2.Trick Beginnings And The European Uncanny -- 3. Out Of Body In Hollywood -- 4. Temportation -- 5.Vr From Cimnemonics To Digitime -- 6. Media Archaeology, Hermeneutics, Narratography -- Appendix: Precinematics; or, Reading the Narratogram -- Notes -- Terms -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed, three decades ago, that different conceptions of time helped define the split in film between European humanism and American science fiction. And as Garrett Stewart argues here, this transatlantic division has persisted since cinema's 1995 centenary, made more complex by the digital technology that has detached movies from their dependence on the sequential frames of the celluloid strip.Brilliantly interpreting dozens of recent films-from Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, and The Sixth Sense t