Translating time : cinema, the fantastic, and temporal critique /

Lim, Bliss Cua.

Translating time : cinema, the fantastic, and temporal critique / Bliss Cua Lim. - Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2011. - xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clocks for seeing : cinema, the fantastic, and the critique of homogeneous time -- Modes of temporal critique : Bergsonism and postcolonial thought -- The fantastic as temporal translation : aswang and occult national times -- Spectral time, heterogeneous space : the ghost film as historical allegory -- The ghostliness of genre : global Hollywood remakes the "Asian horror film" -- Writing within time's compass : from epistemologies to ontologies.

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Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.


Fantasy films--History and criticism.
Time in motion pictures.
Horror films--History and criticism.

791.43615 / L6285 2011