Chronos sickness: digital reality  in Duncan Jones’s Source Code

Marcia Tiemy Morita Kawamoto

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p249

Authors

Marcia Tiemy Morita Kawamoto Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina Federal Institute of Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p249

Abstract

The advent of the digital technologies unquestionably affected the cinema. The indexical relation and realistic effect with the photographed world much praised by André Bazin and Roland Barthes is just one of the affected aspects. This article discusses cinema in light of the new digital possibilities, reflecting on Steven Shaviro’s consideration of “how a nonindexical realism might be possible” (63) and how in fact a new kind of reality, a digital one, might emerge in the science fiction film Source Code (2013) by Duncan Jones.

Author Biography

Marcia Tiemy Morita Kawamoto, Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina Federal Institute of Santa Catarina

Marcia Tiemy Morita Kawamoto holds a PhD in English Literature by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2016) with a sandwich period at the University of St. Andrews, a Master in English and Corresponding Literature (2012) by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and a Licenciatura em Letras Português e Inglês (2009) by Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Currently, she teaches at the Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina. In recent years, Marcia has researched on digital cinema, science fiction and temporality.