Out of Time

Desire in Atemporal Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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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Utgivningsdatum2011-02-16
Mått140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt429 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9780816669967

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Origins of the Atemporal Film1. Temporality after The End of Time in Pulp Fiction2. Not the Worst of All Possible Worlds: Sacrificing the Object in Butterfly Effect3. Eternity without Sunshine: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Hopelessness of Love4. The Path to Politics in The Constant Gardener5. "Something Is Lost": The Ethics of Absolute Negativity in 21 Grams6. Timeless in Space: Placing Eternity in 20467. Affirmation of the Lost Object: Peppermint Candy and the End of Progress8. The Temporal Flight from Trauma: Irréversible and the Critique of ExperienceConclusion: An Infinite MementoNotesIndex

"With its unique mixture of detailed apercus and large synthetic visions, Todd McGowan’s new book will finally establish him as the leading US cinema theorist. Out of Time elicits in me as a fellow writer not only admiration but envy-why didn’t I write that? How could I have missed that point? But my envy is mixed with hope: with writers like McGowan, the future of cinema studies is safe!" -Slavoj Zizek"Todd McGowan theorizes a recent moment in film history when the question of temporality is reformulated in new and unexpected ways. He describes these ‘atemporal’ films through a sequence of astonishingly brilliant readings, guided by his strong, clear grasp of psychoanalytic theory, in an account of an important trend in contemporary cinema. Moreover, McGowan’s analysis opens up fundamental questions concerning the relationship of art and temporality more generally, and as such will be of compelling interest to a wide range of philosophers, critical theorists, and art critics." -Kenneth Reinhard, UCLA