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The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates, and coordinates, it fails to reflect and communicate the more experiential dimensions of time. As Helen Powell demonstrates in this book, cinema has been addressing this issue since its inception. __Stop the Clocks!__ examines filmmakers' relationship to time and its visual manipulation and representation from the birth of the medium to the digital present. It engages both with experimentation in narrative construction and with films that take time as their subject matter, such as __Donnie Darko, Interview with a Vampire, Lost Highway,__ and __Pulp Fiction__. Helen Powell asks what underpins the enduring appeal of the science fiction genre with filmmakers and audience and how cinematography might inform our conceptualization of other imagined temporal worlds, including the afterlife. She examines the role of angels and vampires in contemporary cinema, as well as the distinctive time schemes of new media and their implications for rethinking time and the moving image through digitalization. Broad-based and accessible, __Stop the Clocks!__ will appeal to a wide interdisciplinar

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Author

Helen Powell

Publisher

I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857721471

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Sports