Introduction, Then and Now 1
Time before the Seventies, 4 • Temporal Disarray, 7 •
A Crisis in Historicity?, 9 • Imagining Time Otherwise, 14 •
The Book’s Chapters, 15
1. After the Working Day 19
National Planning and Chronométrage, 24 •
Contesting Time in the 1970s, 26 • Le Temps incertain: "large puddles
of time", 29 • Experiments in Form, 31 • Michel Jeury and
cinéma militant, 32 • Rethinking the Crisis in Historicity, 36
2. Women Filmmakers Take Time 39
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 44 •
The Videos of Carole Roussopoulos, 51 • Sarah Maldoror,
Sambizanga, 57 • What Happens When Nothing Is Happening, 63
3. Counter-Mapping Temporal Borders 65
Proliferating Borders, 67 • Literary Cartography, 69 •
Counter-Mapping Topographie idéale pour une agression
caractérisée, 70 • French Migration Policy, Protest, and
the Page, 79 • Conclusion, 84
4. Clarity and Clutter in Urban Space 86
Perec Collects Words at the Place Saint-Sulpice, 89 •
The New Society and the Space of the City, 93 • Insides
and Outsides, Surfaces and Depths, 97 • Les Halles,
Bidonvilles, Cités de Transit, Grands Ensembles, 103 •
Forms of Resistance, 107 • Daguerréotypes, 110
Conclusion 118
The 1970s Now, 118 • Periodizing Postmodernism,
Periodizing Postmodernity, 120 • Naissance d’un pont:
Postmodernity without Postmodernism?, 123 •
Cinétracts against Nostalgia, 128
Acknowledgments 135
Notes 137
Works Cited 155
Index 169
