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      Too Late, Too Soon
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      Body, Time, and Agency

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      Body, Time, and Agency
      ByThomas Elsaesser, Warren Buckland, Dana Polan, Seung-hoon Jeong
      BookThe Mind-Game Film

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 17
      eBook ISBN 9780203879559
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter describes these three kinds of ‘limits’ that are the conditions of possibility of the cinematic experience as Erlebnis always at the edge of Erfahrung: the body as limit, time as limit, and agency as limit. The conjunction suggests a focus on three aspect of experience, already alluded to: ‘embodiment,’ ‘time,’ and ‘agency’ as those modalities of experience that can be associated with experience as a limit, and its negative correlative, the limits of experience. Limit experiences are above all limits in our sense of body and embodiment, agency and helplessness, time and its apparent irreversibility. While classical cinema potentially deals with all these temporalities, for film noir the same temporalities constitute an impossible temporal horizon, where there can be no single time-frame: in the time of the limit experience it is invariably too soon/too late, it is invariably now and always.

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