The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive 0674007298, 9780674007291

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Mary Ann Deane

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Acknowledgments

This book has changed form several times since its inception quite a few years ago. I have many people to thank for their support, guidance, and encouragement at various stages as well as for their sheer patience. I am grateful tn the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a fellowship that allowed me time to think through the ramifications of a project proposal that is

barely visible in the finished product. Brown University provided research support and time as well as a stimulating intellectual milieu in which tn test my ideas. My students, with their enthusiasm for ideas and their unrestrained imaginations, have been an energizing and inspirational presence. I thank the English Department of the University of Chicago, especially Miriam Hansen, for inviting me to share my work in progress as a Frederic lves

Carpenter Visiting Professor. I am grateful for the animated conversations I had there and for helpful advice and encouragement from Bill Brown, James Lastra, Tom Mitchell, and Mark Sandberg. Tom Gunning and an anonymous reader gave the manuscript a rigorous,

detailed, and insightful reading; l am deeply indebted to them for their pre-

cise criticisms and wise suggestions. The members of a feminist reading group here at Brown—-Susan Bernstein, Christina Crosby, Caroline Dean, Coppelia Kahn, Karen Newman, and Ellen Rooney—read several chapters and offered challenging and provocative criticism as well as support. l am very grateful to my hardworking research assistants. Nicole Israel and Rebecca Coleswnrthy, whose diligence and critical skills match those of the

most seasoned of scholars and whose aid was invaluable. An earlier version of Chapter 2 was published in Critical Inquiry 22, no. 2 {Winter 1996] _i _ G_2a_=_u _ _v _k

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