Experiments with cinematic time
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Experiments with cinematic time is a concept in cinema concerned with fragmentation of narrative and nonlinearity. Has cinematic time influenced literature? See Time's Arrow.
Some films experimenting with cinematic time: Rashomon (1950) - Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Run Lola Run (1998) - Groundhog Day (1993) - Memento (2000) - Irréversible (2002)
Some films concerned with time travel: La Jetée (1962) - The Terminator (1984) - Back to the Future (1985)
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Further reading
The Emergence of Cinematic Time : Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (2002) by Mary Ann Doane
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.
