Spellbound: Early Cinema's Transformational Spaces

Valiaho, Pasi. 2013. Spellbound: Early Cinema's Transformational Spaces. Space and Culture, 16(2), pp. 161-172. ISSN 1206-3312 [Article]

No full text available

Abstract or Description

This article maps out and conceptualizes the way cinema emerged as a novel type of technology of the self and psychic individuation. It analyzes how cinema, in its inception, implemented a binding sensory dynamic that affected the convergence of spatiotemporal patterns into a constantly modifying hybrid self. Technologically animated images started to produce transformational spaces where the individual became problematized and regulated, not only in narratives and rhetorical figures, but more importantly, in the spatial patterning of perception, in affect transmission and collective organization. The article approaches cinema's bodily and psychic dynamics in topological terms and employs three basic concepts – continuity, nearness and neighbourhood – so as to problematize what has become of the question of the individual in the age of moving images.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331213475772

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Research Office > REF2014

Dates:

DateEvent
17 May 2013Published

Item ID:

5800

Date Deposited:

19 Sep 2011 08:45

Last Modified:

19 Feb 2015 02:35

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/5800

Edit Record Edit Record (login required)