New Approaches to Cinematic Space

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

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Screen is the Place Filipa Rosario & Ivan Villarmea Alvarez Part 1: Urban Spaces Memoryscapes: Mapping Urban Space through Amateur Film Archives Paolo Simoni Social Space, Architecture and the Crisis: Neo-noir Aesthetics in Contemporary Greek Cinema Anna Poupou Part 2: Architectural Spaces The Architectural Space Generated by Staircases in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Maria Novela de Aragon Stranger than Paradise - Realities of Cinema, Architectural Imageries, circa 1956 Francisco Ferreira Part 3: Genre Spaces Empire of Catalandia. Science Fiction as the Cinematic Space of the Anthropocene Maurizia Natali The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir Sergio Dias Branco Film Noir and the Folding of America: A Reading of Out of the Past (1947) and Impact (1949) Jeff Childs Part 4: Spectral Spaces Blinking Spaces in Contemporary Psychogeographical Documentaries Ivan Villarmea Alvarez On the 'Ghosts' of Piramida: Ruins, Memory and Music Jose Duarte Remembering a Fabricated City: Visiting Terezin in Daniel Blaufuks's As if... Sandra Camacho Part 5: Heterotopic Spaces On Location: Kiarostami's Landscapes and Cinematic Value Maria Irene Aparicio Mapping Heterotopias in Colombian Documentary Film Maria Luna Cinematographic Missions to the Portuguese Territory (1917-1918) Paulo Cunha Part 6: Phenomenology of Space The Viewer's Embodiment into Cinematic Space: Notes on a 'Space-Image' Cinema Antoine Gaudin Towards the Spatial Affectivities of Colour: The Blue Bedroom in Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon Sander Hoelsgens Cinema, Allospaces and the Unfilmable Bruno Surace Framing Doors, Opening Up Spaces: Cristi Puiu and His Cruel Phenomenology of Space Zsolt Gyenge List of Contributors