Aesthetic Spaces: The Place of Art in Film

Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced open it up to intermedial reflection and tell us a great deal about cinema itself.

The films studied in these chapters include those by Abbas Kiarostami, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelang...