Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema

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Being (a)Part

Kwasu D. Tembo

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English

Rowman & Littlefield
19 February 2026

Film & movie: styles & genres; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Popular culture; Humanistic psychology

Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema.

In his analyses of 21st-century cinematic time-travel narratives, Tembo situates human life in time as a palimpsest, with time acting as scriptor and stylus. A time machine, then, functions as a fantasy that allows for this pace to be slowed or accelerated so as to appear entirely suspended, with the potentials of the “Now” (re)opened to the traveler.

As the manipulation of time lends the traveler increased agency—and perhaps the conditions to see themselves more clearly amid a claustrophobic sea of information and content—Tembo contends that we must carefully consider the psycho-emotional affectivity of both the motivations and the potentially traumatic consequences of such a jarring shift in perspective. The results lend critical insight into human understandings of how we experience time and, ultimately, what these understandings permit and disallow in terms of how (it is) to be in time.

By: Kwasu D. Tembo
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9781793642011
ISBN 10: 179364201X
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

About the Author Foreword; or, The Elvin Time Machine Dedication Synopses of Case Studies PART 0 Introduction: “There Is (No) Other Time” PART ONE Chapter 1. Time Chapter 2. Time II: Reading Time Chapter 3. Time III: Signs of the Times; or, 5 Temporal Axioms PART TWO Chapter 4. Trauma Chapter 5. Time-Travel PART THREE Chapter 6. Time-Traveller Conclusion Bibliography Index

Kwasu D. Tembo is Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

Reviews for Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema: Being (a)Part

In Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema, Kwasu D. Tembo harnesses the potential of time-travel narratives, extrapolating from them to provide thought-provoking philosophical reflections on the nature of time travel and the cultural and economic discourses these narratives develop. Drawing on films like Primer (2004), Timecrimes (2007), and Predestination (2014), Tembo offers meditations on the self and the contemporary moment through a path-breaking examination of the figure of the time traveler. * Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, Professor of Philosophy and Letters, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, and Author of Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century. *