19. Video Art and the Elasticity of Duration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction. Ways of Seeing / Don DeLillo and the Arts 1
6. Part I: DeLillo and Aesthetics: Art as Experience
7. 1. A Tender Experience: Aesthetics of Death in DeLillo’s Fiction 25
8. 2. The Art of Feeling 38
9. 3. The Art of War 51
10. 4. The Art Encounter 65
11. Part II: Visual Arts and Cultures
12. 5. Radiance and Repetition: DeLillo’s Icons 81
13. 6. L’objet trouvé and the Pressure of History: DeLillo’s Aesthetic of Found Things and the 1970s 94
14. 7. DeLillo’s Photo Opportunity 108
15. 8. Where Have All the Writers Gone? Art and Vision in DeLillo’s Later Works 122
16. 9. DeLillo’s Landscapes 135
17. 10. DeLillo in Colour 149
18. Part III: Literary Arts
19. 11. The Art of Editing 165
20. 12. Poetry 179
21. 13. Ekphrasis 195
22. 14. Staged Events: Don DeLillo, the Short Story, Intellectuals and the Arts 209
23. 15. Joycean DeLillo 222
24. 16. DeLilloesque: DeLillo’s Cultural Impact 235
25. Part IV: Film, Screens and Technology
26. 17. DeLillo and the Cinematic Long Take 251
27. 18. Thematic Equivalence and Ontological Ambivalence: Film Adaptations of the Works of Don DeLillo 264
28. 19. Video Art and the Elasticity of Duration 278
29. 20. Screen, Image and the Technological Sublime 290
30. 21. Screening Fundamentalism, Fanaticism and Terrorism in DeLillo’s Post-9/11 Fiction 303
31. 22. The Digital Physics of Reading DeLillo 315
32. Part V: Embodied Arts: Performance and Spectacle
33. 23. Phones, Words and Silences: On Performance and Performativity in DeLillo’s Narrators 329
34. 24. DeLillo Across Page and Stage 341
35. 25. Transforming the Spectacle in DeLillo’s Late Novels 355
36. 26. DeLillo’s Performances of Abjection 368
37. Part VI: Place, Site, Space
38. 27. DeLillo and Land Art 385
39. 28. DeLillo and the Gallery 401
40. 29. Time and Loss: DeLillo and the Imagination of Archaeology 413
41. 30. Going Up in the World: Architecture in the Works of Don DeLillo 427
42. 31. ‘Bird Lives’: The High Art of Graffiti in Don DeLillo 439
43. Notes on Contributors 453
44. Index 460