{"product_id":"plastic-time-1764081015474","title":"Plastic Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenges dominant approaches in screen studies by rethinking time not as a function of narrative or montage, but as something actively constructed through performance—through the expressions, gestures, and movements of bodies on screen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlastic Time\u003c\/i\u003e radically rethinks how we experience time in screen media—not through plot or montage but through performance. The book explores how actors shape time through the movements and manipulations of their bodies: a quick glance, a recurrent shrug, an awkward embrace. Drawing on examples ranging from \u003ci\u003eDuck Soup\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThis Is America\u003c\/i\u003e and from \u003ci\u003eFather Knows Best\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eFriday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e, it shows how bodily gestures and facial expressions sculpt history and contemporaneity, age, rhythm, and tense. Combining media theory, philosophy, and performance studies, \u003ci\u003ePlastic Time\u003c\/i\u003e argues that performance doesn't merely represent time—it actively figures it, stretching here and contracting there, now folding together, then tearing apart. Time in film, TV, and video is not fixed but elastic, not given but constantly made and remade, molded anew; it is as plastic as the actors' bodies that enact it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timotheus Vermeulen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51351904682276,"sku":"9798855807868","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5ced77a6-b008-4248-8ed4-d81b54a95c73.jpg?v=1769140289","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/plastic-time-1764081015474","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}