Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinemas 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, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Carl Th.
Northwestern University Press Aesthetic spaces: the place of art in film, hardcover/brigitte peucker
