A Study of Spatio-temporal Movies And Their Epochal Rep_x005fresentations Based on “Agenda Setting Theory”

Abstract

In the late twentieth century, the technological changes of intelligence, informatisation, and electronification renewed people’s spa_x005ftio-temporal experiences and triggered changes in spatio-temporal phenomena. The dimensions of human spatio-temporal narratives continue to expand, and narratives about the virtual, the cosmic, and the reversal of time and space proliferate. Spatio-temporal cinema, which takes the power of technology as the driving force of imagination, plays an important role in the shaping of these typical spatio-temporal imaginaries. This paper takes Christopher Nolan’s spatio-temporal films as the main samples of the study, in order to explore the main logic of various types of “supra-temporal” narratives. this paper will not only explore the logic of “supra-temporal” narratives, but also the logic of “spatialised” narratives. However, whether in the multiple “supra-temporal” narratives of space-time films or the “spatialised” narratives of historical dramas, both of them are based on the theory of “agenda-setting”, and through the latent representations of the times, they have touched upon and conveyed the profound spiritual crises of mankind and explored the possibilities of and made breakthroughs in their own development.