James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Washington and author of The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization (2013), which won the 2014 Katherine Singer Kovacs book award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

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• Introduction: The Archaeomodern Turn 1. The Old Medium of Film2. Film and History in the Late Twentieth Century3. The Baroque Present4. Museums for Time Machines5. Archaeomodern Images6. The Cinema of Painters Part I: Theory and the Modern Past Chapter OneThe Hauntology of the Cinematic Image: Walter Benjamin, Film Theory, and the Mourning Play1. Haunted Screens2. History, Allegory, and Mourning3. Specters of Cinema4. After Cinema Chapter TwoTime's Arrow, Time's Bow: Gilles Deleuze in the Baroque Age of Cinema1. Deleuze and the Baroque2. Cinema Unfolds3. After Cinema Chapter ThreeSerge Daney, Zapper: Film, Television, and the Persistence of Media1. The Rearview Mirror2. An Adult Art3. Zapping the Cinema Part II: The Cinema of Painters Chapter FourThe Suspended Spectacle of History: The Tableau Vivant in Late Twentieth-Century Cinema1. The Post-Historical Image2. A Painting Ruined3. Caravaggio's Moving Pictures Chapter FiveThe Afterlife of Art and Objects: The Cinematic Still Life in the Late Twentieth Century 1. The Object as Event2. Modernity and the Sacred Object: Alain Cavalier's Thérèse3. Moving Pictures, Still Lives: On Terence Davies Chapter SixCaliban's Books: Old and New Media in the Work of Peter Greenaway1. The Canonical Artifact in a Thatcherite Moment2. Prospero's Library and the Unbound Book3. Illuminated Manuscripts4. A Nomadic Shakespeare and the Confines of Heritage Chapter SevenOld Haunts: Commemoration and Mourning in Agnès Varda's Landscapes1. Unearthed2. Nature's Studio3. Land and Escapes

James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Washington and author of The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization (2013), which won the 2014 Katherine Singer Kovacs book award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

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• Introduction: The Archaeomodern Turn 1. The Old Medium of Film2. Film and History in the Late Twentieth Century3. The Baroque Present4. Museums for Time Machines5. Archaeomodern Images6. The Cinema of Painters Part I: Theory and the Modern Past Chapter OneThe Hauntology of the Cinematic Image: Walter Benjamin, Film Theory, and the Mourning Play1. Haunted Screens2. History, Allegory, and Mourning3. Specters of Cinema4. After Cinema Chapter TwoTime's Arrow, Time's Bow: Gilles Deleuze in the Baroque Age of Cinema1. Deleuze and the Baroque2. Cinema Unfolds3. After Cinema Chapter ThreeSerge Daney, Zapper: Film, Television, and the Persistence of Media1. The Rearview Mirror2. An Adult Art3. Zapping the Cinema Part II: The Cinema of Painters Chapter FourThe Suspended Spectacle of History: The Tableau Vivant in Late Twentieth-Century Cinema1. The Post-Historical Image2. A Painting Ruined3. Caravaggio's Moving Pictures Chapter FiveThe Afterlife of Art and Objects: The Cinematic Still Life in the Late Twentieth Century 1. The Object as Event2. Modernity and the Sacred Object: Alain Cavalier's Thérèse3. Moving Pictures, Still Lives: On Terence Davies Chapter SixCaliban's Books: Old and New Media in the Work of Peter Greenaway1. The Canonical Artifact in a Thatcherite Moment2. Prospero's Library and the Unbound Book3. Illuminated Manuscripts4. A Nomadic Shakespeare and the Confines of Heritage Chapter SevenOld Haunts: Commemoration and Mourning in Agnès Varda's Landscapes1. Unearthed2. Nature's Studio3. Land and Escapes

James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Washington and author of The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization (2013), which won the 2014 Katherine Singer Kovacs book award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

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• Introduction: The Archaeomodern Turn 1. The Old Medium of Film2. Film and History in the Late Twentieth Century3. The Baroque Present4. Museums for Time Machines5. Archaeomodern Images6. The Cinema of Painters Part I: Theory and the Modern Past Chapter OneThe Hauntology of the Cinematic Image: Walter Benjamin, Film Theory, and the Mourning Play1. Haunted Screens2. History, Allegory, and Mourning3. Specters of Cinema4. After Cinema Chapter TwoTime's Arrow, Time's Bow: Gilles Deleuze in the Baroque Age of Cinema1. Deleuze and the Baroque2. Cinema Unfolds3. After Cinema Chapter ThreeSerge Daney, Zapper: Film, Television, and the Persistence of Media1. The Rearview Mirror2. An Adult Art3. Zapping the Cinema Part II: The Cinema of Painters Chapter FourThe Suspended Spectacle of History: The Tableau Vivant in Late Twentieth-Century Cinema1. The Post-Historical Image2. A Painting Ruined3. Caravaggio's Moving Pictures Chapter FiveThe Afterlife of Art and Objects: The Cinematic Still Life in the Late Twentieth Century 1. The Object as Event2. Modernity and the Sacred Object: Alain Cavalier's Thérèse3. Moving Pictures, Still Lives: On Terence Davies Chapter SixCaliban's Books: Old and New Media in the Work of Peter Greenaway1. The Canonical Artifact in a Thatcherite Moment2. Prospero's Library and the Unbound Book3. Illuminated Manuscripts4. A Nomadic Shakespeare and the Confines of Heritage Chapter SevenOld Haunts: Commemoration and Mourning in Agnès Varda's Landscapes1. Unearthed2. Nature's Studio3. Land and Escapes