Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema

Description

<em>Violating Time</em> explores the complexity of nonlinear and disrupted cinematic time – the delayed period between the actual recording of an event and its eventual public viewing; the recreation of an historical event years after it has occurred; a nostalgic return to retro in the postmodern era; and manipulation of the clock in time travel movies to alter the course of events and create new cultural geographies of time, space and experience.
<p>This collection investigates the politics of tactical remembering and forgetting – the selective editing of time and narrative – not only as acts of subversion but also of creative potential and empowerment. It argues that representations of the past and projections of the future are not isolated commentaries of a romantic yesterday or grand visions of tomorrow. Rather, they evoke the preoccupations and anxieties of the present, whether it is the skepticism of nostalgic kitsch (<em>The Royal Tenenbaums</em>) or the projected post-millennial fears of disappearing histories and mutating pasts, manufactured memories and loss of identity (<em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</em> and <em>2046).</em>

Additional information