Dwelling the Open:
Amos Gitai and the Home of Cinema
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 24568875
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Film and Domestic Space
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474428927
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output is a chapter in the book Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif (eds. Baschiera & De Rosa, 2020). Methodologically, the chapter consists of an interdisciplinary analysis that draws on film studies, philosophy and geography to interpret the meanings of domesticity in the work of Israeli director Amos Gitai’s. It therefore constitutes part of the spatial turn in the study of moving images, showing how this serves as a key shift in thinking space as it is represented on the big screen as well as it is built through the moving images in the museum. It also takes a unique approach, not analysing those films by Gitai that more specifically reference the home, but his wider body of work which was presented as multimedia, multichannel video installation, titled Architectures of Memory (2011).
In the chapter, the concept of the home is employed as a figure to study spatiality in association with belonging and subjectivity, and it is taken as a cue to develop a reflection on the medium specificity of moving images as they enter art spaces.
De Rosa’s role in the edited collection as a whole was both as editor and contributor. Thus, the chapter contributes to a larger research question of how the dispositif of cinema and film shape and are informed by representations of the home. The book was reviewed in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, who noted its significance given the centrality of the domestic in the context of Covid-19.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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