Spaces : : Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media.

• Superior document: The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies ; v.9
• Author: Christie, Ian.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ian Christie
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Key debates
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)

Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by André Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to spaces and places other than those they literally inhabit. In the digital era, this spatial illusion and paradox has been greatly expanded – by the predominance of domestic film viewing, along with new extra-terrestrial perspectives, and the promise of novel kinesthetic experiences with Virtual Reality and “immersion”. The international authors in this collection address the history and aesthetics of screen media as spatial transposition, in a range of exemplary analyses that run from the landscapes of John Ford’s westerns to Chantal Akerman’s claustrophobic domestic spaces, from the conventions of the English country house film to Patrick Keiller’s Robinson roaming a changed country, and from the experiences of Covid pandemic confinement to those of un-homed van-dwellers in Chloe Zhao’s award-winning NOMADLAND.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Editorial -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction - Phenomenologies of Screen Space -- Ian Christie -- PART I: Spaces of Spectatorship -- 2. Panoramic Space and the Mesdag Show -- Luke McKernan -- 3. Places of Exhibition -- Mark Cosgrove -- 4. Lockdown as a Mental Space of Communication -- Roger Odin -- PART II: Spaces on Screen -- 5. The Go-Between's Picturesque -- Figure (and Disfigurement) in the Landscape -- Mark Broughton -- 6. Akerman and Domestic Space -- Sarah Leperchey -- 7. Sequence and Simultaneity -- Critiquing English Spaces with a Cine Camera -- Patrick Keiller -- 8. Unhoused -- On the American Spaces of Nomadland -- Ian Christie -- PART III: Spatial Speculations -- 9. Conjuring Spaces on Page and Screen - A Dialogue -- Isobel Armstrong and Ian Christie -- 10. Fly Me to the Moon … Extra-Terrestrial Projections in Artists' Film and Video -- Catherine Elwes -- 11. Stereoscopic Space in Cinema -- An Embodied Experience -- Yosr Ben Romdhane -- 12. Of Drones and the Environmental Crisis in the Year 2020 -- Teresa Castro -- 13. Afterword - Beyond the Frame: "Immersion," New Technologies and Old Ambitions -- Ian Christie -- Index of Film and Video Titles -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.