Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema - Brossura

McGowan, Todd

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ISBN 10: 0816669961 ISBN 13: 9780816669967

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute a new cinematic mode: atemporal cinema.
 In atemporal cinema, formal distortions of time introduce spectators to an alternative way of experiencing existence in time—or, more exactly, a way of experiencing existence out of time. McGowan draws on contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly Jacques Lacan, to argue that atemporal cinema unfolds according to the logic of the psychoanalytic notion of the drive rather than that of desire, which has conventionally been the guiding concept of psychoanalytic film studies.
 Despite their thematic diversity, these films distort chronological time with a shared motivation: to reveal the logic of repetition. Like psychoanalysis, McGowan contends, the atemporal mode locates enjoyment in the embrace of repetition rather than in the search for the new and different.

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L'autore:

Todd McGowan is associate professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Impossible David Lynch and The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan.

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Book by McGowan Todd

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0816669961
• ISBN 13: 9780816669967
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285