New Approaches to Cinematic Space

ISBN-13: 9781138604445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Filipa Rosario; Ivan Villarmea Alvarez

Opis

This book interprets the formal strategies used by filmmakers to depict real or imaginary places and turn them into abstract, conceptual spaces. 

Spis treści

Introduction: Screen is the Place; ; Part 1: Urban Spaces; Memoryscapes: Mapping Urban Space through Amateur Film Archives; Social Space, Architecture and the Crisis: Neo-noir Aesthetics in Contemporary Greek Cinema; ; Part 2: Architectural Spaces; The Architectural Space Generated by Staircases in Alfred Hitchcock’s Films; Stranger than Paradise – Realities of Cinema, Architectural Imageries, circa 1956; ; Part 3: Genre Spaces; Empire of Catalandia. Science Fiction as the Cinematic Space of the Anthropocene; The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir; Film Noir and the Folding of America: A Reading of Out of the Past (1947) and Impact (1949); ; Part 4: Spectral Spaces; Blinking Spaces in Contemporary Psychogeographical Documentaries; On the ‘Ghosts’ of Piramida: Ruins, Memory and Music; Remembering a Fabricated City: Visiting Terezín in Daniel Blaufuks’s As if...; ; Part 5: Heterotopic Spaces; On Location: Kiarostami’s Landscapes and Cinematic Value; Mapping Heterotopias in Colombian Documentary Film; Cinematographic Missions to the Portuguese Territory (1917-1918); ; Part 6: Phenomenology of Space; The Viewer’s Embodiment into Cinematic Space: Notes on a ‘Space-Image’ Cinema; Towards the Spatial Affectivities of Colour: The Blue Bedroom in Yasujirō Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon; Cinema, Allospaces and the Unfilmable; Framing Doors, Opening Up Spaces: Cristi Puiu and His Cruel Phenomenology of Space; ; ;