Spaces: Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media (1) (The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies)

By: Ian Christie

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 222 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040782361
Related ISBNs:: 9781041186502, 9789048563265, 9781040773659, 9781003704195
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: vignet The authors / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Outdoors and Nature
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ian Christie