Violating Time
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Violating Time

History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema

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  2. English
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Violating Time

History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema

About this book

Violating Time explores the complexity of nonlinear and disrupted cinematic time - the delayed period between the actual recording of an event and its eventual public viewing; the recreation of an historical event years after it has occurred; a nostalgic return to retro in the postmodern era; and manipulation of the clock in time travel movies to alter the course of events and create new cultural geographies of time, space and experience.

This collection investigates the politics of tactical remembering and forgetting - the selective editing of time and narrative - not only as acts of subversion but also of creative potential and empowerment. It argues that representations of the past and projections of the future are not isolated commentaries of a romantic yesterday or grand visions of tomorrow. Rather, they evoke the preoccupations and anxieties of the present, whether it is the skepticism of nostalgic kitsch (The Royal Tenenbaums) or the projected post-millennial fears of disappearing histories and mutating pasts, manufactured memories and loss of identity (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and 2046).

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781441151315
eBook ISBN
9781441142962
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism
30 
VIOLATING 
TIME
ese 
images, 
however, 
are 
far 
from 
objective. 
In 
fact, 
the 
camera’s 
movements 
and 
the 
various 
narrations 
posit 
jazz 
history 
in 
a 
certain 
con-
text, 
a 
certain 
time 
and 
a 
certain 
place 
marked 
with 
identiable 
artifacts, 
that 
is, 
the 
various 
photographs 
of 
Kansas 
City. 
is 
lmic, 
contextual 
practice, 
as 
Bill 
Nichols 
points 
out 
in 
Ideology 
and 
the 
Image
, 
creates 
its 
own 
self-referential 
meaning:
e 
appearance 
of 
movement 
pries 
lm 
away 
from 
the 
world 
it 
re-presents 
at 
the 
very 
moment 
it 
deploys 
codes 
similar 
to 
those 
pre-
siding 
over 
our 
perception 
of 
the 
physical 
world 
. 
. 
. 
[t]he 
cinema 
takes 
on 
an 
organizational 
coherence 
as 
a 
distinct 
system 
of 
signs 
and 
codes 
. 
. 
. 
[it 
is] 
both 
everywhere 
and 
nowhere; 
it 
is 
an 
ordering 
principle, 
an 
algorithm, 
not 
an 
entity 
we 
can 
point 
to. 
(1981: 
69, 
71)
e 
apparent 
movement 
of 
the 
photograph 
(or 
camera 
angle 
or 
shot) 
pro-
duces 
slippage 
between 
the 
phenomenon 
the 
lm 
is 
attempting
to 
re-present 
and 
what 
it 
actually
represents 
that 
is 
best 
exemplied 
through 
the 
illusion 
“Oak 
Street, 
Kansas 
City, 
1922” 
in 
Jazz
(2001), 
episode 
6 
“Swing: 
e 
Velocity 
of 
Celebration.” 
Missouri 
Valley 
Special 
Collections, 
Kansas 
City 
Public 
Library, 
Kansas 
City, 
Missouri.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. HalfTitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. “The Cracks Between”: Cinematic and Proto-Cinematic Counter-Memories of the American Civil War
  10. 2. Our Impossible Failings: The Rhetoric of Historical Representation, Ideology, and Subjectivity in Ken Burns’ Jazz
  11. 3. “Zero Percent Chance of Rain”: The Watergate History and All The President’s Men
  12. 4. Staying for Time: The Holocaust and Atrocity Footage in American Public Memory
  13. 5. Nostalgic Travels through Space and Time: Good Bye, Lenin!
  14. 6. The Temporal/Spatial Logic of Japanese Nationalism: The Narrative Structure of Film and Memory
  15. 7. Remembering a Film and “Ruining” a Film History: On Tian Zhuangzhuang’s “Failure” to Remake Spring in a Small Town
  16. 8. “We’ll Always Have Hong Kong”: Uncanny Spaces and Disappearing Memories in the Films of Wong Kar Wai
  17. 9. “No Future for You”: The Sex Pistols and the Politics of Cinematic Reimaginings
  18. 10. The American Family (Film) in Retro: Nostalgia As Mode in Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
  19. 11. Manifesting a Mutant Past in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  20. 12. When People Run in Circles: Structures of Time and Memory in Donnie Darko
  21. 13. What a Difference a Day Made: Database Narratives and Avatar Subjectivities in the Alternate-Reality Film
  22. List of Contributors
  23. Index

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