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1 online resource (x, 189 pages) |
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Drift -- The present moment -- Peaks and valleys -- What's the use? -- Boredom -- The end of pleasure -- A horizontal line |
| Summary |
In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"--The experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture's preoccupation with the reproduction of the present |
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Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust's conception of time/memory with Cubism's attempt to interpret time through perspective and Surrealism's exploration of subliminal representations of the present. Other topics include Husserl's insistence that the present can only be fantasy or fabrication and the focus on impossibility, imperfection, and loss in Kelvin's laws of thermodynamics. Ultimately, Charney's work hints at parallels among such examples, the advent and popularity of cinema, and early film theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Filmkunst.
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Modernisme (cultuur)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97041661 |
| ISBN |
9780822379119 |
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0822379112 |
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