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Time Tells, Vol. 1
Time Tells is a grand study of time, technology, performance, the attention economy, and comedy. Using the cinematic time-jump, "a numerical shorthand for a fated intermission," to weave a narrative of chronopolitics, memoir, and cultural study, Masha Tupitsyn constructs a unique literary and visual phenomenology on the loss of time, presence, and attention in the digital age. Structured into two interlocked inquiries—Time and Acting—Time Tells focuses on the internet to talk about the ethics of presence and attention, comedy to talk about timing and the language of critique, and lying masculinity, the double, and acting to talk about performance and the reign of falsehood. Both volumes intersect to examine our inability to experience coherence and integration in the post-truth era.
In the first volume, Time, Tupitsyn covers wide-ranging cultural touchstones such as the ’90s TV show Felicity, Hitchcock's Vertigo, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Pretty Woman, Wong-Kar wai's 2046, David Fincher's Zodiac, Jean-Luc Godard, the Beastie Boys, Wim Wenders, the art of style, memory and music in the post-internet age, and the lost ontology of cinema. Using what Tupitsyn terms “screen-shot criticism,”Time Tells makes innovative critical thinking accessible to anyone interested in American culture today.
With an afterword by Felix Bernstein. Includes 168 color images.
In the first volume, Time, Tupitsyn covers wide-ranging cultural touchstones such as the ’90s TV show Felicity, Hitchcock's Vertigo, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Pretty Woman, Wong-Kar wai's 2046, David Fincher's Zodiac, Jean-Luc Godard, the Beastie Boys, Wim Wenders, the art of style, memory and music in the post-internet age, and the lost ontology of cinema. Using what Tupitsyn terms “screen-shot criticism,”Time Tells makes innovative critical thinking accessible to anyone interested in American culture today.
With an afterword by Felix Bernstein. Includes 168 color images.
296 pages, Paperback
Published January 11, 2023
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About the author
Masha Tupitsyn
21 books93 followersMASHA TUPITSYN is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the forthcoming 2-part study, Time Tells, (Hard Wait Press, 2023), Like Someone In Love: An Addendum to Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007),
Picture Cycle
(Semiotexte/MIT, 2019), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009).
In 2015, she made the 24-hour film, Love Sounds, an audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema, which concluded an immaterial trilogy. The film was accompanied by a catalogue, published in 2015 by Penny-Ante Editions, and has been exhibited and screened in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Tarot Diaries , 2016, is an audio essay, diary, and mixtape about fate and future in late capitalism.
In 2017, she started her ongoing durational film series, DECADES. So far, she has completed two installments, the 1970s and the 1980s . DECADES composes a history of cinematic sound and score for each 20th century decade. The next installment will be the 1990s.
Her newest films are BULK COLLECTION and the ongoing music series The Musicians .
Her writing on film, feminism, culture, and art has been featured in numerous anthologies, journals, and art catalogues such as Bookforum, Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, BOMB, LitHub, Fence, Frieze, The New Inquiry, Berfrois, IndieWire, The White Review, Fireflies,The Rumpus, Performa 11, and Pace Gallery. She has taught film, media, literature, and gender studies at The New School, Pratt, and NYU.
Her new series of books, Time Tells, will be published by Hard Wait Press in November, 2022.
Her introduction to Paul Schrader's First Reformed will be published by Archway Editions/Simon & Schuster in 2023.
In 2015, she made the 24-hour film, Love Sounds, an audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema, which concluded an immaterial trilogy. The film was accompanied by a catalogue, published in 2015 by Penny-Ante Editions, and has been exhibited and screened in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Tarot Diaries , 2016, is an audio essay, diary, and mixtape about fate and future in late capitalism.
In 2017, she started her ongoing durational film series, DECADES. So far, she has completed two installments, the 1970s and the 1980s . DECADES composes a history of cinematic sound and score for each 20th century decade. The next installment will be the 1990s.
Her newest films are BULK COLLECTION and the ongoing music series The Musicians .
Her writing on film, feminism, culture, and art has been featured in numerous anthologies, journals, and art catalogues such as Bookforum, Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, BOMB, LitHub, Fence, Frieze, The New Inquiry, Berfrois, IndieWire, The White Review, Fireflies,The Rumpus, Performa 11, and Pace Gallery. She has taught film, media, literature, and gender studies at The New School, Pratt, and NYU.
Her new series of books, Time Tells, will be published by Hard Wait Press in November, 2022.
Her introduction to Paul Schrader's First Reformed will be published by Archway Editions/Simon & Schuster in 2023.
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November 17, 2023
3.5 I loved taking my time with this. So many great quotes and insights about film. I know future me will better understand and appreciate this book. I can’t wait to come back to it.
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