Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART ONE
5. 1. This Point in Time 21
6. 2. The Search for the Experiential Present 40
7. 3. The Longest Now: A History of the Historical Present 66
8. PART TWO
9. 4. The Present in Pictures 89
10. 5. Narrative and the “Unexplained Instant” 109
11. 6. The Cinematic Present from Intolerance to Interstellar 136
12. Conclusion: Here and Now 167
13. Notes 179
14. Index 205