Translating Time by Bliss Cua Lim
Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
A scholarly exploration of how cinema—especially Philippine horror and the fantastic—visualizes multiple, non-linear temporalities that disrupt the homogeneous time of modernity. Through close readings of films, censorship records, and exhibition practices, it shows how ghosts, repetition, and anachronism surface colonial and authoritarian histories that refuse to remain past. Bridging film theory and postcolonial critique, it argues that cinematic time “translates” suppressed memories and offers heterochronic challenges to dominant narratives of nation, history, and progress.
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- 2009
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