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Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the 19th century as an unprecedented means of capturing time - and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a world that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the stucturing of time and contingency in capitalist modernity. At this book's heart is the cinema's essential paradox: temporal continuity conveyed through "stopped time", the rapid succession of still frames or frozen images. Doane explores the role of this paradox, and of notions of the temporal indeterminacy and instability of an image, in shaping not just cinematic time but also modern ideas about continuity and discontinuity, archivability, contingency and determinism, and temporal irreversibility. A compelling meditation on the status of cinematic knowledge, her book is also an inquiry into the very heart and soul of modernity.
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Mary Ann Doane is George Hazard Crooker University Professor of Modern Culture and Media and of English at Brown University.
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A really amazing thought provoking book
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This is not an easy book. I've read it twice, and had a headache from thinking so much the first time. Now, I'm not a dumb guy, but I'm not well versed in Philosophy. I came to this book from the film side, and it was a text for a media/philosophy course. It is truly an inspired work, and brings the work of Freud, Muybridge, Edison, and Barthes into conversation with each other. It is not a fast read, and it is pretty comtemplative. I'd recommend reading a section of it prior to buying it to make sure that it is what you are looking for, but chances are if you are even looking at it, you are looking for it.
I'd also advise against getting a used copy, unless you can completely ignore underlining and writing in the margins, as this is a book that seems to necessitate note taking.
I'd also advise against getting a used copy, unless you can completely ignore underlining and writing in the margins, as this is a book that seems to necessitate note taking.
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