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Stop the Clocks!: Time and Narrative in Cinema
Helen Powell
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Description for Stop the Clocks!: Time and Narrative in Cinema
Hardback. Num Pages: 183 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
The clock plays a significant part in our overall understanding of temporality. But while it functions to simplify, regulate and coordinate, it fails to reflect and communicate the more experiential dimensions of time. Each living moment is always more than clock time: it comprises a multiplicity of temporal frames, a fusion of past, present and future projections, dreams and memories. Due to the contemporary pace of life we rarely think about such complexities but, as Helen Powell demonstrates in this book, cinema has been addressing this issue since its inception. Stop the Clocks! examines filmmakers’ relationship to time ... Read more
The clock plays a significant part in our overall understanding of temporality. But while it functions to simplify, regulate and coordinate, it fails to reflect and communicate the more experiential dimensions of time. Each living moment is always more than clock time: it comprises a multiplicity of temporal frames, a fusion of past, present and future projections, dreams and memories. Due to the contemporary pace of life we rarely think about such complexities but, as Helen Powell demonstrates in this book, cinema has been addressing this issue since its inception. Stop the Clocks! examines filmmakers’ relationship to time ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
183
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780762166
SKU
V9781780762166
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About Helen Powell
Helen Powell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London. She has also worked in the advertising industry and adopts an interdisciplinary approach in her teaching, writing, and research.
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