Downtime

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Slow Motion, Very Quickly
Part I: A Theory in Slow Motion
1. At the Movies to the End of Time
2. Almost Freeze Frame
3. From Zero to Slow
4. Experiments in Time
5. Slow-Motion Modernism
6. Escape Velocities
7. Technological Aesthetics
8. New Media, Slow Media
9. What We See in Slow Motion
Part II: Modernity at Any Speed
10. Some Literary Histories of Slow Motion
11. Modernity's Slow Start
12. Faulkner at the Speed Limit
13. Snopes at Rest
14. Remainder's Instant Replays
15. Austerlitz's Traumatic Pauses
16. Being in Racial Time: Daughters of the Dust
17. We Have Always Been in Slow Motion: The Discovery of Slowness
18. DeLillo, Slowing Down
19. From 9/11 to JFK in Slow Motion
20. Underworld: How Slow Is Now?
21. A "Sixties Incandescence": Periodizing Slow Motion
Part III: Forever '68
22. Bonnie and Clyde and Slow and Fast
23. Posthistoric Prehistoric Modernism: 2001: A Space Odyssey
24. How the West Slows Down: Sergio Leone and the Long Struggle
25. The Wild Bunch, or the Pains of Being Sam Peckinpah
26. Antonioni's Art of Excess: Zabriskie Point
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Color Illustrations