Fractal Time: On Evolution of the Notions of Time in Contemporary Cinema
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The author deals with the important, from the point of view of poetics of contemporary artistic film, problem of various notions of time. Fractal time is the key theoretical category introduced into the analysis by the author. Hendrykowski tests its usefulness in analysing and interpreting film on the construction of time in Nashville (1975), but he also refers to other films by Robert Altman. In contrast to the classical model of film narrative, modern forms of constructing time in film develop alternative versions of showing reality, other than linear order of cause and effect. By way of a panorama or a fresco they combine into one the details of audiovisual show, with an optimally extensive overview. Such an attitude, visionary in the world cinema of the 1970s, makes Altman’s work thoroughly modern form of social cinema on the world scale.
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fractal time, Robert Altman, contemporary cinemaReferences
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Marek Hendrykowskikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Poland
Historyk i teoretyk filmu, medioznawca, badacz kultury audiowizualnej, profesor zwyczajny w Katedrze Filmu, Telewizji i Nowych Mediów Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, redaktor senior czasopisma naukowego „IMAGES”, autor monografii książkowych: Film jako źródło historyczne (2000), Kanał (wspólnie z Donem Fredericksenem, 2007), Popiół i diament (2008), Komeda (2009), Eroica (2011), Film i moda (2011), Andrzej Munk (2011), Do widzenia, do jutra (2012), Morgenstern (2012), Najlepsze kasztany. Księga cytatów polskiego filmu (2013), Semiotyka ruchomych obrazów (2014) oraz Współczesna adaptacja filmowa (2014).
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