The key text to classifying off-screen space remains Noël Burch's
*Theory of Film Practice*, 1981, pp. 17-31. On-screen space, of
course, names the space inside the film frame, and off-screen space
lies beyond the film frame.
Off-screen space is divided into six segments:
the four spaces beyond each frame line; a fifth space, the space behind
the camera; and a sixth space, the space hidden within the film frame.
With the exception of the analytical cut-in, which shows a detail of
the previous shot, a cut materializes one area of off-screen space, and
consigns the on-screen space to the status of off-screen space.
Warren Buckland
Editor, New Review of Film and Television Studies:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp
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