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notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded.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 ...
This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we
deserved. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, signaling the End
Times for humanity, and our best hope for life, lies in DEATH!
The second volume of the Eisner Award nominated series is finally here! "We
Are All One" follows our cast around the fractured future-scape of America as we
learn more about a world that's rapidly coming to an
end.
Product details
- 12-17
- Paperback | 144 pages
- 163 x 254 x 3mm | 272g
- 22 Apr 2014
- Image Comics
- Fullerton, United States
- English
- illustrations
- 1607068559
- 9781607068556
- 37,254
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