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  title info:
    title: Downtime
    sub title: the twentieth century in slow motion
  name:
    name part: Goble, Mark
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In the beginning of the modern world, there was speed. This is one of the mythologies of modernity which is both contradicted and complemented by the ubiquity of slow motion in visual, literary, and popular culture over the past sixty years. Relatively underutilized for much of the early history of movies, beginning in the late 1960s with the release of such culturally influential films as 2001, Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Wild Bunch that made prominent use of slow motion, filmmakers began to employ it to evoke an emerging sense of a changing society, a crisis of modernity, and uneven experiences of time. In Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion, Mark Goble argues that we can see in the history of slow motion a much broader fascination with the limits of our ability to comprehend modernity as a period of perpetual acceleration. Ranging widely across film and literature, Goble examines the evolution of slow motion as a cinematic special effect from the silent era to the present. He also considers how slow motion has been employed by William Faulkner, Don DeLillo, W. G. Sebald, and Tom McCarthy as an allegory of how we live with technology and how it lets us perceive fleeting states of being. The writers and filmmakers Goble considers portray a history of the twentieth century as figured in slow motion, rushing past and deliriously delayed and trying to register what it feels like when we go fast and slow at the same time"--
  note: Mark Goble.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cinematography
    topic: Special effects
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Space and time in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Space and time in literature
  subject:
    topic: Cinéma
    topic: Effets spéciaux
  subject:
    topic: Espace et temps au cinéma
  subject:
    topic: Cinematography
    topic: Special effects
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Space and time in literature
  subject:
    topic: Space and time in motion pictures
  classification: TR858 .G65 2025
  classification: 778.5/345
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Downtime
    name:
      name part: Goble, Mark.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024048140
  identifier: 9780231219150
  identifier: 0231219156
  identifier: 9780231219167
  identifier: 0231219164
  identifier: 9780231562546
  identifier: 2024048139
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241029
    record change date: 20250804223544.6
    record identifier: in00005656317
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng