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Author:   Mark Goble (Assistant Professor, University of California - Berkeley)
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231219150

ISBN 10:   0231219156
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   17 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Slow Motion, Very Quickly Part I: A Theory in Slow Motion 1. At the Movies to the End of Time 2. Almost Freeze Frame 3. From Zero to Slow 4. Experiments in Time 5. Slow-Motion Modernism 6. Escape Velocities 7. Technological Aesthetics 8. New Media, Slow Media 9. What We See in Slow Motion Part II: Modernity at Any Speed 10. Some Literary Histories of Slow Motion 11. Modernity’s Slow Start 12. Faulkner at the Speed Limit 13. Snopes at Rest 14. Remainder’s Instant Replays 15. Austerlitz’s Traumatic Pauses 16. Being in Racial Time: Daughters of the Dust 17. We Have Always Been in Slow Motion: The Discovery of Slowness 18. DeLillo, Slowing Down 19. From 9/11 to JFK in Slow Motion 20. Underworld: How Slow Is Now? 21. A “Sixties Incandescence”: Periodizing Slow Motion Part III: Forever ’68 22. Bonnie and Clyde and Slow and Fast 23. Posthistoric Prehistoric Modernism: 2001: A Space Odyssey 24. How the West Slows Down: Sergio Leone and the Long Struggle 25. The Wild Bunch, or the Pains of Being Sam Peckinpah 26. Antonioni’s Art of Excess: Zabriskie Point Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Goble sets out to explain why slomo became culturally ubiquitous over a couple years in the late 60s, but he gives us something much greater. Absolutely compelling, Downtime wants to be read as a book. Its style is essential to its tremendous aspiration, nothing less than a reorientation of our attention to film, literature, and time. -- J. D. Connor, author of <i>Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession</i>> What a treat! Moving deftly between film, literature, and new media art, Goble’s bold, witty, and highly original book reads slow motion an allegory of the disjunctive experience of temporality under capitalism. This is an essential, deeply philosophical study of slow motion as a media aesthetic that helps us think through the historical crises that modernity produces at an ever-faster frame rate. -- Justus Nieland, author of <i>Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era</i>

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Mark Goble is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (Columbia, 2010).

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