The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

by Mary Ann Doane

Book Overview

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007840
• ISBN13: 9780674007840
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"