Bliss Cua Lim

Translating Time

Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 198mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344995
• ISBN-10: 0822344998
• Artikelnr.: 26256857

Autorenporträt

Bliss Cua Lim is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

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