New Approaches to Cinematic Space

Filipa Rosário (Ph.D. Artistic Studies - Cinema Studies, University of Lisbon) is a researcher in the Centre for Comparative Studies (UL), where she coordinates the project ‘Cinema and the World - Studies on Space and Cinema’. She is the author of O Trabalho do Actor no Cinema de John Cassavetes (2017).Iván Villarmea Álvarez (Ph.D. History of Art, Universidad de Zaragoza) works as a researcher at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He has published the book Documenting Cityscapes. Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and co-edited the volume Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portugués en el Siglo XXI (2014).

• 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; ; ;