A Communal Haunt: Synchronicity and Betweenness in the Atemporal Films of Shimizu Takashi

Michael J. Blouin

doi:10.1386/ac.22.2.178_1

ISSN: 1059-440X
E-ISSN: 2049-6710

A Communal Haunt: Synchronicity and Betweenness in the Atemporal Films of Shimizu Takashi
By Michael J. Blouin
Source: Asian Cinema, Volume 22, Issue 2, Dec 2011, p. 178 - 195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ac.22.2.178_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Dec 2011

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Temporality plays a crucial role in Western modernity. Concepts such as progress and industrialism are born from static notions of time; by tracing the development of what came before, and aspiring towards what lies ahead, the modern subject is continuously caught in the forward motion of a calculated mechanism designed to keep time.

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