Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a 'reflection' but an indispensable index of human experience - especially our experience of time's passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Focusing on European, North and South American, and Asian films, Kilbourn reads cinema as...
Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a 'reflection' but an indispensable index of human experience - especially our experience o...
Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction, Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands between modernism's ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after.
Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction, Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world th...
W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption brings to light certain recurrent ideas scattered through Sebald's writings, including the two-sided question of "cultural redemption" in a supposedly secular world: can culture save us from the catastrophe of history, and/or how can we save our culture in the process?
W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption brings to light certain recurrent ideas scattered through Sebald's writings, including the two-sided question of...