E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten
Lim Translating Time
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9099-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten
Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9099-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Clocks for Seeing: Cinema, the Fantastic, and the Critique of Homogeneous Time 1
1. Two Modes of Temporal Critique: Bergonism and Postcolonial Thought 43
2. The Fantastic as Temporal Translation: Aswang and Occult National Times 96
3. Spectral Time, Heterogeneous Space: The Ghost Film as Historical Allegory 149
4. The Ghostliness of Genre: Global Hollywood Remakes the "Asian Horror Film" 190
Epilogue. Writing within Time's Compass: From Epistemologies to Ontologies 245
Notes 253
Bibliography 305
Index 323