This temporal dislocation recurs, indicating an underlying shift in the past-future paradigm.
Expeditions, by their nature, pull the traveller beyond the normal rhythms of time, and these images are meant to instill in viewers a sense of temporal dislocation.
A Nightmare on Elm Street has sequences of horrifying temporal dislocation to rival Fellini or Jodorowsky: a corpse in a body-bag walking a hallway, a bed spouting blood that floods over the ceiling.
These myriad influences are filtered and distilled in her fiction, which displays many of the tenets we would now deem to be modernist – stream-of-consciousness narration, temporal dislocation and discursive fragmentation – while at the same time remaining fundamentally readable.
Although he remains known for the formal traits he pioneered in the 60's -- notably a dazzling, disjunctive style of editing, which is today the common property of Raul Ruiz, Oliver Stone and MTV -- Mr. Resnais long ago abandoned those mannerisms and their effect of temporal dislocation.
In his new book, "Time Travel," James Gleick argues that before the invention of the printing press, less than six hundred years ago, notions of any sort of temporal dislocation were next to impossible; people saw the future as relatively similar to the past — large changes over time simply weren't visible or accessible.
He laughed, and toyed with his glasses, his coal-black hair and graying beard cinematically reinforcing his theme of temporal dislocation.
A younger writer might be tempted to burden such a story with the cumbersome framing devices, manifold shifts in point of view and temporal dislocations that pass, in this age, for dazzling style.
All these temporal dislocations have sundered the family spatially.
