aion, 27
Abrams, M. H., 32–33
Aquinas, Thomas, 77
Arendt, Hannah, 78
Aristotle, 36, 37, 46, 54, 102, 117, 121, 122–23; definition of the instant, 28, 29, 34–35, 55, 168; on the common sense, 7, 45, 50, 62, 80, 100–101; on the experiential present, 40–41, 66; on the present as a point, 21, 22, 23–25, 27, 31, 32, 70; Physics, 21, 23, 26, 31, 40–41; Poetics, 113, 114; Sense and Sensibilia, 40–41, 45
Arsham, Daniel, 1
Arstila, Valtteri, 61–62
attraction, the, 147
Auerbach, Erich, 74; Mimesis, 74
Augé, Marc, 4
Augustine, 6, 9, 10, 28, 108, 117, 120; Civitas Dei, 78; Confessions, 41–42; on the present as an instant, 22, 41–42; threefold present of, 64, 68–69, 70–71, 116
Aumont, Jacques, 92
Avanessian, Armen, 126–30; Present Tense: A Poetics, 126–30
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 114–15
Barr, Alfred, 84
Barr, James, 27
Barthes, Roland, 143–44, 145; Camera Lucida, 144
Batchen, Geoffrey, 96
Baudelaire, Charles, 83
Bazin, André, 144
Beaumont, George, 92
Bellour, Raymond, 139, 145, 146, 147
Benjamin, Walter, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 81, 103; Arcades Project, 81; “On the Philosophy of History,” 32
Benschop, Ruth, 49
Bergson, Henri, 8, 22, 89, 138, 142, 169
Berlin, Isaiah, 82
binding problem, 7, 62, 100; See also common sense
Blake, William, 33
Bloch, Ernst, 36
Bordwell, David, 157
Boring, Edwin, 53
Bowen, Elizabeth, 109–10, 126, 128; The Heat of the Day, 109–10
Brand, Stewart, 67
Braun, Marta, 99
Broad, C. D., 56
Brontë, Charlotte, 130; Jane Eyre, 111, 126, 130
Brown, Thomas, 52
Buonomano, Dean V., 61
Burke, Edmund, 101–2
Caillebotte, Gustave, 106
Callender, Craig, 90–91
camera obscura, 63
Carnap, Rudolph, 7
Cather, Willa, 110; The Professor’s House, 110
Cavell, Stanley, 137–38, 158; The World Viewed, 138
close-up, 147–48
Cockburn, David, 8
common sense, 45–46, 50, 51, 62; See also binding problem
Constable, John, 92–93
contemporary period, 1–2, 14, 67, 68, 83
Cowper, William, 95
Cramer, John G., 7
Currie, Mark, 129
Dainton, Barry, 56
Danto, Arthur, 112
Deleuze, Gilles, 137–38, 138–39, 142–43, 145, 146, 156; The Time-Image, 139, 156
Derrida, Jacques, 11, 57, 58, 111
Descartes, René, 45–46, 48, 50, 59, 62
Descombes, Vincent, 16
Dickens, Charles, 130–31; A Christmas Carol, 130–31
Didi-Huberman, Georges, 104–5, 106, 107, 108
Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard, 77
Draaisma, Douwe, 49–50
Drew, William, 155
Duchamp, Marcel, 107
Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth, 95–96
Eisenstein, Sergei, 143, 147, 148
Eisner, Will, 171–72
Elias, Norbert, 66, 67, 71, 72–73, 75
Eliasson, Olafur, 107–8
Eliot, T. S., 83; The Waste Land, 151
Feeney, Denis, 75
Fielding, Henry, 110, 122; Shamela, 110
film, 9–10, 13, 15, 17, 126, 136–66
Flanagan, Owen, 125
Foucault, Michel, 16–17
Fox Talbot, William Henry, 95–96, 97
Fra Angelico, 104
Frampton, Hollis, 9–10
Frankfurt School, 16
free indirect discourse, 110
Genette, Gerard, 123
Genova, Giovanni di, 105
Gish, Lillian, 155
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 5, 101, 113–14, 115, 118
Gombrich, E. H., 12, 93, 96, 99
Graves, Robert, 83
Griffith, D. W., 15, 136–37, 138, 143, 146, 148, 149–57, 161, 166; A Corner in Wheat, 150; The Fatal Hour, 149, 163; Intolerance, 15, 136–37, 150, 151–57, 158, 161, 163, 165; The Lonely Villa, 153
Gunning, Tom, 146, 147, 149, 150
Gurvitch, Georges, 71–72, 74, 75, 82
Halbwachs, Maurice, 82
Hamburger, Käte, 111
Hammer Museum, 1–2, 6, 21, 167
Hardy, Barbara, 122
Harootunian, Harry, 69
Hartog, François, 3, 67, 70–71, 73–74
Harvey, David, 2–3
Hawes, Stephen, 80
Heidegger, Martin, 116, 120, 169; Basic Problems of Phenomenology, 31, 32; Being and Time, 31–32; definition of the moment, 31–32, 35, 36–37, 38, 39, 43; Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, 36; on the modern present, 3, 68–69, 70
Heller-Roazen, Daniel, 45–46
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 48, 50, 52, 60
Hennig, Anke, 126–30; Present Tense: A Poetics, 126–30
Herschel, Sir John, 98
Holcroft, Thomas, 122
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 32
Homer, 26; Iliad, 74, 118; Odysssey, 122
Hoptman, Laura, 108
Husserl, Edmund, 6, 11, 14, 69, 70, 99, 111, 116, 117, 125, 143; comet metaphor, use of, 9, 10, 57–58; on the experiential present, 56, 57–60, 62, 92; On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time, 57–60
instant, 12, 30, 43, 44, 116; Aristotle on, 24–25, 28; definition of, 22–23; opposed to kairos, 27, 29, 34–35, 37, 39; and photography, 97, 99, 139, 146
James, William, 14, 60, 66, 70, 92, 125, 142; metaphors, use of, 9, 10, 55, 57, 63–64; present, research into, 47, 51–56, 59, 99, 140; present, specious, 53–56, 62, 69, 94, 168; Principles of Psychology, 52, 53–56
Jameson, Fredric, 2–3, 38, 84, 118–20, 133, 176; The Antinomies of Realism, 118–20
Jerome, 28
Jeseniowski, Joyce, 153
Jetztzeit, 32
Joyce, James: Ulysses, 151
Kaife, Thomas J., 96
kairos, 26–29, 31, 32, 35, 38–39, 71
Kandel, Eric, 60
Kant, Immanuel, 8–9, 16, 21, 22–23, 79–80, 81, 82, 89–91, 101–2; “What Is Enlightenment,” 16
Kelly, E. Robert, 52–53
Kermode, Frank, 27, 28, 29, 116; Sense of an Ending, 27
Kierkegaard, Søren, 30–32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 82; Concept of Anxiety, 30–31, 37
Kluge, Alexander, 119
Koepnick, Lutz, 107–8
Koselleck, Reinhart, 68–70, 80, 82
Krauss, Rosalind, 141
Kubler, George, 103, 108, 167, 168; The Shape of Time, 108
Landes, David, 72
Le Poidevin, Robin, 11, 56, 94
Lee, Pamela, 2
Leibniz, G. W., 4
Lessing, G. E., 12, 94–95, 98, 99, 100; Laocoön, 12, 94–95
Levinas, Emmanuel, 12
Leyden, Wolfgang von, 24
Linklater, Richard, 6; Boyhood, 6
Lloyd, Dan, 61–62
Locke, John, 4, 53, 55, 75, 123; Essay on Human Understanding, 4; metaphors, use of, 60, 63, 64; on the common present, 79–80, 81; on the “forensic” self, 125; on the instant, 22, 43–44
Londe, Albert, 97
Loos, Anita, 154
Lucretius, 41
Lukács, Georg, 5, 30, 114, 115, 118, 120, 125, 176; “The Crisis of Bourgeois Realism,” 120
Lugon, Olivier, 145
Lyssipus, 26
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 122–23, 124; After Virtue, 122–23
Mantel, Hilary, 131–32; Wolf Hall, 131–32
Marcus Aurelius, 5
Marey, Etienne-Jules, 97, 98, 140
McGuire, Richard, 16, 170–77; Here, 16, 170–77
Mead, George Herbert, 35
Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest, 98
memory, 10–11, 46, 52, 58, 141–42, 170
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 11
Michelson, Annette, 142
Mink, Louis, 124
Mitchell, David, 126, 131–35, 167, 177; The Bone Clocks, 131; Cloud Atlas, 132–35; Number9Dream, 131; The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, 126, 131–32
modernity, 2, 5, 16, 29, 68, 81–84
Mölder, Bruno, 61
Molesworth, Helen, 1–2
Moltke, General von, 72
montage, 143
Morse, Samuel, 95
Moutoussis, Konstantin, 61, 62
Müller, G. E., 47
Mundle, C.W.K., 56
Münsterberg, Hugo, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143
Nagel, Alexander, 104, 107, 108
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 105
narrativity thesis, 111, 116, 120–26
Neo-Platonics, 100
Nepos, Cornelius 76
Newman, Barnett, 101; “The Sublime Is Now,” 102
Nichols, Herbert, 46–47
Niépce, Joseph, 95
Nolan, Christopher, 15, 157–66, 167, 168, 177; Following, 158; Inception, 157–58, 160–63; Interstellar, 158, 163–66; Memento, 158–60
Norris, Frank, 150
Nowotny, Helga, 69
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 145
Pater, Walter, 33
Peripatetics, 100
persistence of vision, 140–42
Phelan, James, 120
phenomenology, 13, 56–57, 58, 117, 142, 169
Phillips, Ian, 8
photography, 12, 14, 92, 95–100, 103, 138, 144–46; instantaneous, 14, 97–99
physics, post-Newtonian, 6–7
Plateau, Joseph, 140
Plato, 26, 27, 28, 30, 100, 113, 141; Parmenides, 30; Philebus, 27, 100; Statesman, 26
Poincaré, Henri, 7
Polybius, 76–77
Pontormo, Jacopo, 105
Pound, Ezra: The Cantos, 151
present: cinematic, 136–66; experiential, 10, 13–14, 40–65; historical, 5, 14, 66–85, 152; narrative, 109–12; objective, 7, 161; perpetual, 74, 139, 171; specious, 53, 54–56, 64, 69, 70, 94, 125; subjective, 7, 10; virtual, 105; See also instant
Priestley, Joseph, 80, 83, 84; New Chart of History, 80
psychophysiology, 46–51, 57, 59
Pullman, Philip, 130
Raphael, 94
Raw, 170
Reid, Thomas, 46–47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 62, 66
Renaissance, 4, 63, 104, 108, 115
Richardson, Samuel, 110
Ricoeur, Paul, 5–6, 25; on Aristotle, 76, 113; on Husserl, 69–70; on narrative, 111, 115–17, 121, 123, 127–28, 129
Riding, Laura, 83
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 137
Rossellini, Roberto, 147
Ruskin, Thomas, 96
Russell, Bertrand, 56
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 59, 94, 118, 119; Being and Nothingness, 59, 118; The Imaginary, 94
Schelling, F.W.J., 32
Schiller, Friedrich, 113–14, 115, 118
Schmitt, Carl, 38
Seneca, 5
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 12, 93, 94
Shelley, Percy, 33
Sloterdijk, Peter, 81
Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 27
Sorabji, Richard, 24
Stanford, Leland, 97
Stella, Frank, 107
Stewart, Dugald, 44–45, 46, 52, 60
Stiegler, Bernard, 3
stream of consciousness, 55
Subin, Nina, 107–8
sublime, 101–3
Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 107
Tarkovsky, Andrei, 138, 139; Sculpting in Time, 138; Stalker, 139
Taylor, Charles, 123–24
Thompson, Kristin, 148
Thucydides, 26
tragedy, 114
Tretyakov, Sergey, 146
Trollope, Anthony, 66–67, 69; The Way We Live Now, 66–67, 74
Van Fraassen, Bas, 129
Vertov, Dziga, 148; Man with a Movie Camera, 148
Vico, Giambattista, 121
Virno, Paolo, 168–70; Déjà Vu and the End of History, 168–70
Ware, Chris, 170
Weber, Max, 16
Weinrich, Harald, 127
Wertheimer, Max, 140
Whitman, Walt, 155
Wilde, Oscar, 83
Wittmann, Marc, 63
Wollen, Peter, 145
Wood, Christopher, 104
Woolf, Virginia, 3, 33, 35, 38, 39, 170; “The Moment,” 33; To the Lighthouse, 3, 38, 170; “Sketch of the Past,” 33
Wordsworth, William, 33, 92, 95
Wundt, Wilhelm, 47, 48–49, 51, 52, 60
Zola, Emile, 120