Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called "homogeneous, empty time" founds the modern notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded. In Translating Time, Bliss Cua Lim argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple "immiscible temporalities" that strain against the modern concept of homogeneous time. In this wide-ranging study-encompassing Asian American video (On Cannibalism), ghost films from the New Cinema movements of Hong Kong and the Philippines (Rouge, Itim, Haplos), Hollywood remakes of Asian horror films (Ju-on, The Grudge, A Tale of Two Sisters) and a Filipino horror film cycle on monstrous viscera ...
Las narraciones extraordinarias de Edgar Allan Poe constituyen la parte más conocida de su obra. El cine y la televisión han explotado, no siempre con fortuna, lo que en Poe hay de misterioso y hasta terrorífico, dejando de lado la intensidad, el pulso y ese acento de campana gigantesca que suponen los valores primordiales de una obra concentrada y personalísima, en la cual lo humano se eleva por caminos pavorosos a tensiones muy superiores a su contenido melodramático.
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