Description: Investigates 'time' as a defining factor which influences how events real and imagined are represented in films, employing the metaphor of cinema as time machine.
Brief description:
Christina Lee is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Australia. She is the author of Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema (2010), and editor of Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic (co-editor, 2022), Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence (2017) and Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema (2012). Her areas of research include cultural memory, spaces of spectrality and imagination, fandom and popular culture.