Wednesday, December 7, 2016

On Film and Time

True description requires a pause in temporal flow, which is not possible in cinema because cinema cannot stop time
Seymour Chatman from "What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (and Vice Versa) ," in Literary Theories in Praxis, ed. Shirley F. Stanton, 159-69 (philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press 1987).

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