This book explores the history and aesthetics of slow motion, from its origins in early film to its prominence today. Ranging across literature, art, and cinema - including novels by William Faulkner, Don DeLillo, and W. G. Sebald as well as Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust - he describes how writers and filmmakers depict the velocities and durations of contemporary life.