Spaces, Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media

Year

2024

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-04856-327-2

Link

Last Update

28-Feb-2026

Keywords

Film Studies ; Communication Studies

Description

Andrei Tarkovsky (1987) famously defined cinema as above all an art of time, enabling its spectators to experience time in novel ways – and its makers to “sculpt” it. Twenty years earlier, André Bazin had defined cinema as a photographic medium as “objectivity in time” or “change mummified” (1967, 15). But is it not equally, or even more fundamentally an art of space? Even before we have registered any sense of time, in front of a screen we are unavoidably “in another place.” In classic cinemagoing, we have traveled to a special place where this vision of a different world...