Plastic Time: Gesture on Screen by Timotheus Vermeulen Hardcover Book

by Timotheus Vermeulen

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Plastic Time by Timotheus Vermeulen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Challenges dominant approaches in screen studies by rethinking time not as a function of narrative or montage, but as something actively constructed through performance—through the expressions, gestures, and movements of bodies on Time radically rethinks how we experience time in screen media—not through plot or montage but through performance. The book explores how actors shape time through the movements and manipulations of their bodies: a quick glance, a recurrent shrug, an awkward embrace. Drawing on examples ranging from Duck Soup to This Is America and from Father Knows Best to Friday Night Lights, it shows how bodily gestures and facial expressions sculpt history and contemporaneity, age, rhythm, and tense. Combining media theory, philosophy, and performance studies, Plastic Time argues that performance doesn't merely represent time—it actively figures it, stretching here and contracting there, now folding together, then tearing apart. Time in film, TV, and video is not fixed but elastic, not given but constantly made and remade, molded anew; it is as plastic as the actors' bodies that enact it. Details ISBN-13 9798855807844 Title Plastic Time Author Timotheus Vermeulen Format Hardcover Year 2026 Pages 216 Publisher State University of New York Press GE_Item_ID:177544728; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! W

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9798855807844
• Condition: Fine

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