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notions of progress and a uniform global present in which the past and other forms of time consciousness are seen as superseded.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 ...
En el salón de Ric Lazare una increíble máquina permite contar la fortuna con una precisión infalible. Pero la policía de París cree que Lazare es un estafador y envía a Paul Picard a investigar. El inspector prefiere las tartas de limón y las prostitutas a la alta sociedad; y no está preparado para la cadena de asesinatos que lo va a arrastrar por el continente hasta quedar atrapado en el último nudo seductor del asesino
Product details
- Paperback | 216 pages
- 12 Nov 2018
- Navona Editorial
- NAVONA
- Spain
- Spanish
- New edition
- 9788417181536
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