Cross Cultural Temporal Tendencies between Monochronic and Polychronic Materialisation in the films A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Uninvited (2009)

Damien R. Tomaselli

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Abstract

Material culture is an extension of spatial–temporal perceptions and behaviour. The nature of the manner in which rhetorical material is woven into visual narrative become symbolic expressions of material assembly. Mikhail Bakhtin referred to such material assembly as “flesh” in the instance of the novel. In this article, I will extend Bakhtin's notion of “flesh” to film and demonstrate that Edward Hall's theory of mono-chronic and poly-chronic time apply to the materialisation of narrative flesh in the films discussed herein.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103-115
Number of pages13
JournalCritical Arts
Volume36
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • Time dilation
  • chronotope
  • film
  • ideologeme
  • monochronic time
  • polychronic time
  • spacetime

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • Communication
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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