Domietta Torlasco is associate professor of French and Italian and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. She is the creator of the digital film Antigone’s Noir and the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Against House Arrest: Antigone and the Impurity of the Death Drive2. Digital Impressions: Writing Memory after AgnÈs Varda3. Folding Time: Toward a New Theory of Montage4. Archiving Disappearance: From Michelangelo Antonioni to New MediaNotesIndex

"Inspired by other scholars who have brought the phenomenological method to cinema, Domietta Torlasco writes beautifully of her own encounters with films and images, drawing the reader into her own vision as she elucidates its implication in a constellation of deep thought. The book’s insights are as fresh and profound as its writing, in other words: at its best moments, it is a real tour de force that is an extended reflection rather than a series of discrete observations." -Amy Villarejo, author of Film Studies: The Basics "Digital technology allows once quiescent cinemagoers to dismantle and refashion previously inviolable products of the film industry. Torlasco sees the potential for politically transformative thinking in such acts. She argues that our capacity to imagine alternative futures may depend on our ability to reconfigure the virtual archive of filmic memory. Part philosophical reflection, part manifesto, Torlasco's book is essential reading for anyone wishing to steer a critical theory of audiovisual art between the Scylla and Charybdis of technophilia and artworldspeak. " -Victor Burgin, author of The Remembered Film

Domietta Torlasco is associate professor of French and Italian and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. She is the creator of the digital film Antigone’s Noir and the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Against House Arrest: Antigone and the Impurity of the Death Drive2. Digital Impressions: Writing Memory after AgnÈs Varda3. Folding Time: Toward a New Theory of Montage4. Archiving Disappearance: From Michelangelo Antonioni to New MediaNotesIndex

"Inspired by other scholars who have brought the phenomenological method to cinema, Domietta Torlasco writes beautifully of her own encounters with films and images, drawing the reader into her own vision as she elucidates its implication in a constellation of deep thought. The book’s insights are as fresh and profound as its writing, in other words: at its best moments, it is a real tour de force that is an extended reflection rather than a series of discrete observations." -Amy Villarejo, author of Film Studies: The Basics "Digital technology allows once quiescent cinemagoers to dismantle and refashion previously inviolable products of the film industry. Torlasco sees the potential for politically transformative thinking in such acts. She argues that our capacity to imagine alternative futures may depend on our ability to reconfigure the virtual archive of filmic memory. Part philosophical reflection, part manifesto, Torlasco's book is essential reading for anyone wishing to steer a critical theory of audiovisual art between the Scylla and Charybdis of technophilia and artworldspeak. " -Victor Burgin, author of The Remembered Film

Domietta Torlasco is associate professor of French and Italian and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. She is the creator of the digital film Antigone’s Noir and the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Against House Arrest: Antigone and the Impurity of the Death Drive2. Digital Impressions: Writing Memory after AgnÈs Varda3. Folding Time: Toward a New Theory of Montage4. Archiving Disappearance: From Michelangelo Antonioni to New MediaNotesIndex

"Inspired by other scholars who have brought the phenomenological method to cinema, Domietta Torlasco writes beautifully of her own encounters with films and images, drawing the reader into her own vision as she elucidates its implication in a constellation of deep thought. The book’s insights are as fresh and profound as its writing, in other words: at its best moments, it is a real tour de force that is an extended reflection rather than a series of discrete observations." -Amy Villarejo, author of Film Studies: The Basics "Digital technology allows once quiescent cinemagoers to dismantle and refashion previously inviolable products of the film industry. Torlasco sees the potential for politically transformative thinking in such acts. She argues that our capacity to imagine alternative futures may depend on our ability to reconfigure the virtual archive of filmic memory. Part philosophical reflection, part manifesto, Torlasco's book is essential reading for anyone wishing to steer a critical theory of audiovisual art between the Scylla and Charybdis of technophilia and artworldspeak. " -Victor Burgin, author of The Remembered Film