Stanley C. Pelkey

Watching Cosmic Time

Arts & Literature

“This insightful study of postwar cinema considers how visual and audio elements in suspense films attended to the passing of time. Watching time was emblematic of order under stress from war and its aftermath. Thoroughly attentive to the details of his cinematic texts, Matthew Moore convincingly argues that filmic worldviews and geopolitical events intersected as suspense films explored moral decision-making and the paradoxes of power. Highly recommended.”