Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 22:29:35 +0800
From: "Andrew Albert J. Ty" <andrewty-AT-i-manila.com.ph>
Subject: Re: postcolonial film and time


Dear Chuck,

Why don't you try the films of Wong Kar Wai? There is in fact a pretty good essay that talks about
the time motif in his works. It's available at http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/toh195.htm. There
are other sites online, and I can give you the ones I have bookmarked if you eventually decide that
Wong's films fit into your study. Of course, a whole slew of Hong Kong films can be used here as
well. Good luck with your study, and let me know how things turn out. It seems highly interesting.

Andrew


Charles Tryon wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone could suggest films and/or theory dealing with the
> question of postcolonial cinema and time.  Specifically, my study is
> focusing on the concept of cinema as a form of time travel (I realize
> there are a lot of precedents here), and one of the concerns I'd like to
> address is the construction of time (chronotypes) and their cinematic
> representations within different cultural contexts.
>
> So far, I've been thinking only in terms of mainstream Hollywood and some
> new French cinema (Resnais, Marker, etc).  But I think that at least some
> focus on postcolonial cinema could be productive.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Tryon
>
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