![]() ![]() Given that Dunne’s metaphysics mostly concerns travel into the future, it may also seem perverse that we should emphasise its influence on a much more Proustian work, that is, a study of travel to the past, as Matheson offers. Rather, his novelistic and cinematic readings both apply and resist Dunne’s views, creating a distorting mirror – a refraction rather than simply a reflection. ![]() And yet Matheson’s is no straightforward implementation of Dunne’s work, a mere illustration of a philosophy. The reason we bring these together is because Matheson’s ideas about time, attention, and identity partly originate in Dunne’s philosophy. Dunne’s metaphysics of time and that of film, specifically, the idea of travelling back in time that Richard Matheson explored in his 1975 novel, Bid Time Return, and his screenplay of that book for Somewhere in Time (Szwarc, 1980). This essay approaches the subject of time-travel from two perspectives: that of philosophy – J.W. ![]()
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