In his book Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema, author Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute … More Todd McGowan: The Timeless Christopher Nolan
If you’re like millions of Americans, you probably believe last week’s Metrodome collapse happened on account of “heavy snowfall” and “record temperatures,” “classic occurrences” in Minnesota in December. Bad weather.Midwest.Winter. How terribly original of us! Uff da. We really gotchu good. Here’s what really went down: We wanted to see the Minnesota Vikings’ 50th anniversary … More How the Minnesota Vikings’ Metrodome situation *really might have* gone down
Today’s post is by Amy Herzog, associate professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She is author of Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. ——- In a sequence from Christopher Nolan’s film Inception (2010), we are introduced to the mechanics of shared dreaming alongside … More Submersion Doesn’t Come Easily: How the musical score in "Inception" is a lesson in collective dreaming. (As well as an ode to Hitchcock’s "Vertigo.")
