Violating Time History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema
Violating Time explores the complexity of nonlinear and disrupted cinematic time - the delayed period between the actual recording of an event and its eventual public viewing; the recreation of an historical event years after it has occurred; a nostalgic return to retro in the postmodern era; and ma...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing
2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35618863*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "The Cracks Between": Cinematic and Proto-Cinematic Counter-Memories of the American Civil War; 2. Our Impossible Failings: The Rhetoric of Historical Representation, Ideology, and Subjectivity in Ken Burns' Jazz; Meet Me in New Orleans/St. Louis/Chicago/Kansas City; Jazz and the Internal Dialectic; Jazz's Ideological Dreams; 3. "Zero Percent Chance of Rain": The Watergate History and All The President's Men; 4. Staying for Time: The Holocaust and Atrocity Footage in American Public Memory.
- Time, Mythology, and the Use of Atrocity FootageTime and the Manipulation of Atrocity Footage; Legal and Political Uses of Atrocity Footage; 5. Nostalgic Travels through Space and Time: Good Bye, Lenin!; Looking Down (and Back) from Above: Space Travel As Time Travel; A World Apart: Nostalgia for the "Society of Niches"; Real Existing Consumerism: Western Nostalgia for East German Products; 6. The Temporal/Spatial Logic of Japanese Nationalism: The Narrative Structure of Film and Memory; The Spatial/Temporal Logic of Nationalism and Memory: Postwar Japan.
- Unknowable History: Hiroshima Mon AmourThe Never-Ending Past: Memory and Melancholia in Rashomon; Conclusion; 7. Remembering a Film and "Ruining" a Film History: On Tian Zhuangzhuang's "Failure" to Remake Spring in a Small Town; "Ruining" and Excavating Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town: Anomaly, Archive, Canon; Remaking, Retracing, and the Space of Nostalgia; From Tuibai Qiliang (Desolation and Melancholy) to Tuifei (Decadence): Transcoding Nostalgia; The Logic of "Failure" and Postsocialist Nostalgia.
- 8. "We'll Always Have Hong Kong": Uncanny Spaces and Disappearing Memories in the Films of Wong Kar WaiHere Today, Gone Tomorrow: Disappearing Spaces, Memories, and Histories; Have We Met Before? Disjunctures in the Space-Time Continuum; Lost in Time, Lost in Space: Repeating History (and Memory) in 2046; 9. "No Future for You": The Sex Pistols and the Politics of Cinematic Reimaginings; 10. The American Family (Film) in Retro: Nostalgia As Mode in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums; 11. Manifesting a Mutant Past in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Structure of Memory; Pure Memory.
- The Object of Memory12. When People Run in Circles: Structures of Time and Memory in Donnie Darko; Echoes from a Vanished World; Hearing the Past; Contested Histories; Postscript: The Signifi cance of the Smurfs; 13. What a Difference a Day Made: Database Narratives and Avatar Subjectivities in the Alternate-Reality Film; I Want to Be a Rock Star: Me Myself I and Database Identities; Mind the Gap: Sliding Doors and Branching Narratives; After the Game Is Before the Game: Run Lola Run and Time-Loop Narratives; Conclusion; List of Contributors; Index.
