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Research Seminar, Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham.
On Wednesday 22 October Dr Sarah Atkinson (University of Brighton) will be presenting 'Inside-the-scenes: materiality, embodiment and the new spaces of cinematic reception'
University Park, Trent Building, B40, 5pm
All welcome.
Abstract:
This paper explores commercial cinema’s recent turn towards the ‘experiential’ whereby audience members literally ‘feel’ the contents of the filmic text through processes of objectification, embodiment and spatialization.
Moving beyond visual and auditory stimuli toward the engagement of the audiences entire sensorium, these experiences affect haptic, visceral and cognitive stimulations both during, and outside the film viewing experience.
This paper positions audience engagement as affective labor within these emergent paradigms of materiality - the production of objects from a film’s diegetic universe; embodiment - the positioning of audience members as characters in filmic texts; and through the immersive spatialization of cinematic milieu.
These paradigms will be expounded through examples including David Cronenberg’s Body Mind Change, Polyester and the odorama revival, and Secret Cinema - all of which represent a growing demand for live, immersive and participatory cinematic experiences in which dramatic exposition can be kinesthetically and physically ‘felt’. For example, within a Secret Cinema experience, participants enter the spatialization of the film’s storyworld through the actualization of the fictional locale of the film in which the chronological ordering of film’s storyline is recreated through a carefully simulated topology.
Through close textual analyses, this paper reveals that in their reimaginings of nostalgic cinematic moments, all of these experiential instances exist within retroactive temporalities and need to be understood within the context of a complex system of cinematic representational practices in which they are situated.
Biography:
Dr Sarah Atkinson’s research work examines narrative, text, process, apparatus and audience to map new spaces and modes of cinematic spectatorship. Her recent monograph Beyond the Screen: Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences presents an expanded conceptualisation of cinema, one which encompasses the ways film can be experienced beyond the auditorium by a networked society. The book includes considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through case studies of recent and near-future developments. Sarah is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded DEEP FILM Access project (DFAP) which aims to unlock latent opportunities that exist within big and complex data sets generated by industrial digital film production.
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