{"product_id":"time-on-the-brink-of-brittany-murray-9781531513719","title":"Time on the Brink of Impasse: Historicity, Postmodernity, and the French Seventies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime on the Brink of Impasse \u003c\/i\u003eexplores a pivotal decade in French cultural history through the lenses of literature, film, and critical theory. The 1970s in France are often dismissed as a period of blocked historical imagination. This book argues that the period's literature and cinema reflect not disorientation or despair but a decade animated by artistic responses to new experiences of time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReturning to influential theorists of postmodernity, including Fredric Jameson, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard, \u003ci\u003eTime on the Brink of Impasse\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how artists represented new experiences of time. Through close readings of writers and filmmakers including by Agnès Varda, Rachid Boudjedra, Chantal Akerman, Georges Perec, Sarah Maldoror, and Carole Roussopoulos, the book examines how aesthetic form registered new temporal imaginaries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy situating culture within the broader context of work, housing, migration, and gender activism, Murray's book offers a fresh perspective on how historicity was rethought after the end of the postwar period. Historically grounded and theoretically lucid, \u003ci\u003eTime on the Brink of Impasse \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a period alive with possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brittany Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531513719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531513719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Brittany Murray","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520085569791,"sku":"9781531513719","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3002aeb7-9c61-4c8d-b1ee-5d7072c19f1a.jpg?v=1778740655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/time-on-the-brink-of-brittany-murray-9781531513719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}