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