Contents

pp iii-iii

List of Figures

pp iv-iv

Acknowledgements

pp v-viii

Introduction – Time, Existential Presence, and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film

pp 1-30

Part I - The Otherness of Existence and “Spacious Temporality”: Delayed Cinema and Freedom

pp 31-32

1 - Delayed Cinema and “This Space-Time of Freedom”: De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948)

pp 33-55

2 - La Demora (2012)

pp 56-77

3 - Existence and Ethics in the Dardenne Brothers’ Two Days, One Night (2015)

pp 78-98

Part II - Western Spaces: Landscapes of Denial, Death, and Freedom

pp 99-100

4 - El Viaje: Tommy Lee Jones and the Violent Times of the Mission to Mexico

pp 101-126

5 - The American Way: Time, Death, and Resurrection in Iñárritu's Western Masterpiece

pp 127-152

Epilogue – Time, Spacing, and the Body in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993)

pp 153-187

Index

pp 188-191