Vivian Sobchack, Lounge Time Postwar, Crises and the Chronotope of Film Noir
1940s-50s: Film Noir -> fatalism, memory, and moral uncertainty
60-70s: Modernism -> waiting, existential drift, architecture as stage
90s-2020s: Global modernity -> loneliness, migration, identity suspension
theoretical synthesis
Sobchack – phenomenology of film experience
Herman – Narrative as worldmaking (cognitive narratology)
Palmer – temporal contingency and spatial discontinuity
Mulvey – gaze and desire within spatial structures