Spaces

Ian Christie is a film historian and curator, currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a visiting professor and fellow at universities in Chicago, Tampa, Stockholm, Canberra, Paris and Olomouc, and at Gresham College in London 2017-21, as well as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University in 2006. He has written and edited books on Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam; and contributed to many exhibitions

• Editorial, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: Phenomenologies of Screen Space - Ian Christie, Part 1 Spaces of Spectatorship, 2. Panoramic Space and the Mesdag Show - Luke McKernan, 3. Places of Exhibition - Mark Cosgrove, 4. Lockdown as a Mental Space of Communication - Roger Odin, Part 2 Spaces on Screen, 5. THE GO-BETWEEN's picturesque: figure (and disfigurement) in the landscape - Mark Broughton, 6. Akerman and Domestic Space - Sarah Leperchey, 7. Sequence and Simultaneity: Robinson's Spaces - Patrick Keiller, 8. Unhoused: on the American Spaces of NOMADLAND - Ian Christie, Part 3 Spatial Speculations, 9. Conjuring Space on Page and Screen, a dialogue - Isobel Armstrong and Ian Christie, 10. Fly me to the moon... extraterrestrial projections in artists' film and video - Catherine Elwes, 11. Stereoscopic Space in Cinema: an Embodied Experience - Yosr Ben Romdhane, 12. Of Drones and the Environmental Crisis in the Year 2020 - Teresa Castro, 13. Afterword: Beyond the frame: immersion, new technologies and old ambitions - Ian Christie, Index.