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In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as driftthe experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern cultures preoccupation with the reproduction of the present.Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Prousts conception of time/memory with Cubisms attempt to interpret time through perspective and Surrealisms exploration of subliminal representations of the present. Other topics include Husserls insistence that the present can only be fantasy or fabrication and the focus on impossibility, imperfection, and loss in Kelvins laws of thermodynamics. Ultimately, Charneys work hints at parallels among such examples, the advent and popularity of cinema, and early film theory.A book with a structural modernity of its own, Empty Moments will appeal to those interested in cinema and its history, as well as to other historians, philosophers, literary, and cultural scholars of modernity.
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