Doing Time: Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Contemporary Cinema (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema) - Tapa dura

"Accessibly written while maintaining an erudite tone, [Doing Time] is not only readable, but thoroughly enjoyable. This is because Carruthers does an excellent job of explaining and reconfiguring some of the most impenetrable terms in both phenomenology and continental philosophy ... The book is well organised, thoughtful, and above all, rewarding, as it gives the reader an entirely new means of not just viewing films, but of experiencing them." -- Film-Philosophy

"...Carruthers provides a clear and accessible discussion that will be relevant to a range of readers: philosophers of time who are interested in a novel account of temporality and temporal experience as it is represented in film; philosophers of film looking for a fresh approach to the topic, in this case a comprehensive exploration of a hermeneutic approach to how we understand filmic texts; and those engaged in Film Studies and film theory who enjoy a fillip of philosophy in their reading." -- Phenomenological Reviews

"Lee Carruthers makes an original and powerful argument about the importance of 'timeliness, ' providing a much-needed alternative approach to that of Deleuze to thinking seriously about the temporality of cinema. Her chapters, including one on The Tree of Life, are masterful criticism." -- William Rothman, author of Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock