Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

by Bliss Cua Lim

Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called "homogeneous, empty time" founds the modern notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded.

In Translating Time, Bliss Cua Lim argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822345102
• ISBN13: 9780822345107
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"