Prison of Time

"Through the close analysis of Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay, and Quentin Tarantino's oeuvre, Elisa Pezzotta discusses time in the cinematic medium. Pezzotta deploys and unpacks an impressive array of scholarly methods to interrogate film time, many of which are emerging areas of analysis with the humanities, and especially screen studies. Offering an innovative synthesis of these several areas conventionally regarded as outliers to film and media, such as philosophy, cognitivism, quantum mechanics etc, Pezzotta skillfully draws from extant scholarly literature to make evident the narratology of cinematic ellipses, lacunae and analepses across a range of films and genres. Chosen for their different narrative and stylistic features, these four directors provide fruitful content on creating different diegetic worlds, giving rise and creation to diverse ideas of film time."--