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The Viewer's Embodiment into Cinematic Space. Notes on a Space-Image Cinema

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This chapter is an invitation to consider cinematic space through a new analytical view – which actually is not only a ‘view’, but a carnal perception that deeply implies the spectator’s body. The focus of this paper is a notion I call the "space-image" (Gaudin, 2015), which echoes Gilles Deleuze’s well-known concepts “movement-image” and “time-image” (Deleuze, 1983, 1985). As the movement-image and the time-image, the space-image refers to a space that is not just a content or background of the image, but is at the same time a major philosophical issue and a fundamental plastic material of cinema. This concept is useful to study the poetics of space in the works of a few contemporary auteur filmmakers, such as Gus Van Sant, Jia Zhang-ke or Philippe Grandrieux, whose films call for a new paradigm of cinematic space. The space-image highlights the fact that before showing and staging an imaginary space "behind the screen", every film is first a spatial phenomenon in itself. Thus, space should also be considered as a primary plastic power inscribed within the moving image. This phenomenological approach is substantially different from classical approaches to space in film analysis.
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Antoine Gaudin. The Viewer's Embodiment into Cinematic Space. Notes on a Space-Image Cinema. Filipa Rosario & Ivan Villarmea, New Approaches to Cinematic Space, Routledge, 2018. ⟨hal-03117128⟩
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