Framed Time

by Stewart, Garrett

• ISBN13: 9780226774169
• ISBN10: 0226774163
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed, three decades ago, that different conceptions of time helped define the split in film between European humanism and American science fiction. And as Garrett Stewart argues here, this transatlantic division has persisted since cinema's 1995 centenary, made more complex by the digital technology that has detached movies from their dependence on the sequential frames of the celluloid strip. Brilliantly interpreting dozens of recent filmsfromBeing John Malkovich,Donnie Darko, andThe Sixth SensetoLa mala educacionandCacheStewart investigates how their treatments of time reflect the change in media from film's original rolling reel to today's digital pixel. He goes on to showwith 140 stillshow American and European narratives confront this shift differently: while Hollywood movies tend to revolve around ghostly afterlives, psychotic doubles, or violent time travel, their European counterparts more often feature second sight, erotic telepathy, or spectral memory. Stewart questions why these recent plots, in exploring temporality, gravitate toward either supernatural or uncanny apparitions rather than themes of digital simulation. In doing so, he provocatively continues the project he began withBetween Film and Screen, breaking new ground in visual studies, cinema history, and media theory.

Author Biography

Garrett Stewart is the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters in the English Department at the University of Iowa. He is the author of several books, including Between Film and Screen, and most recently, The Look of Reading, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Forewords

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Optical Allusion 1

Lexeme to Pixel: An Experiment in Narratography

The Golden Bowl

The House of Citizen Kane

Trick Beginnings and the European Uncanny

Memento

Insomnia

Run Lola Run

Three Colors: Blue Three Colors: Red

The Double Life of Veronique

The Red Squirrel Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Time Regained

Simon the Magician Heaven

Swimming Pool

Out of Body in Hollywood

The Matrix

Dark City

The Manchurian Candidate

Abre Los Ojos Vanilla Sky

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The Sixth Sense

The Others Jacob’s Ladder

Adaptation

Identity

One Hour Photo

Temportation

ParisQui Dort

Johnny Mnemonic

Frequency

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Donnie Darko

The Thirteenth Floor

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Butterfly Effect

2001: A Space Odyssey

Being John Malkovich

VR from Cimnemonics to Digitimen

The Forgotten

City of Lost Children

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