Keyword : Temporality

The Sixth Sense: Humanizing Horror

A thematic-based analysis of Shyamalan's narrative structure, with an emphasis on temporality.

The Work of Cinema in the Age of Digital (Re)production

Najmeh Khalili returns with a theoretical speculation on new digital media which looks for answers by looking into the cinematic past.

Toward a Synthesis of Cinema -A Theory of the Long Take Moving Camera, Part 2

Part two of Menard's theoretical explication of classical film theory.

Toward a Synthesis of Cinema -A Theory of the Long Take Moving Camera, Part 1

This two-part paper uses Orson Welles The Trial (1963) as a model to explicate Brian Henderson's long take theory. Instead of arguing for or against Henderson's critical standpoint, it uses its classification scheme as a basis for a more thorough understanding of the theoretical gap that exists between the two institutional pillars of cinema, the exclusive theories of Sergei Eisenstein and Andre Bazin.

A Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky's Theory of Time-Pressure, Part 1

This essay offers a Deleuzian analysis of the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's montage theory of time-pressure, foregrounded against the historical backdrop of Eisenstein's montage of attractions.

A Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky's Theory of Time-Pressure, Part 2

Part two of Menard's unique 'cine-physics'.

Hiroshima Mon Amour (DVD Review)

A review of Criterion's wonderful transfer of the Alain Resnais film which helped usher in the 1960s modernist cinema.

Thinking About Cinema With Cinema

Totaro explores how certain styles of filmmaking (montage vs. long take style) may be used to activate different cognitive states ('intellect' versus 'emotion').

Sátántangó

A review which tries to capture the unique experience which is Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó.

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Family Viewing and the Spatialization of Time

A look at Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing as both a springboard and touchstone for an inquiry into the nature of time and how shifting perceptions and attitudes toward it have effected society and the individual.

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Time, Bergson, and the Cinematographical Mechanism

Why is French philosopher Henri Bergson relevant for today's film theory?

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FCMM: Into the 21st Century

Another edition of the FCMM has come and gone, and I can not remember an edition which featured as many programmers and organizers brimming with perennial smiles.

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Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonian Film Project : Part 1

In his second book Deleuze tackles temporality in a more direct fashion. Although the book is considerably longer than the first (344 to 250 pages), Deleuze does not propose rigid or neat classifications. The central shift remains from a cinema that defined itself primarily through motion to one that concerned itself more directly with time. The time-image moved beyond motion by freeing itself of the sensory-motor link to a pure optical and sound (tactile) image.

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