Types of the off-screen Space (A Case of Alfred Hitchcock and Marcel Hanoun)
The author distinguishes several types of screens in her paper. For this purpose, she draws on an analysis of two films - Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST and L'AUTOMNE, made in 1985 by Marcel Hanoun. Off-screen space is defined in her text as something that is created in the viewer's imagination based on clues derived from what is (or was) perceptible and audible on the screen.
From the exterior, this space "encroaches" on the perceptible space of the frame or is, on the contrary, explicitly evoked, in any case adjacent to it in some way. The relationship between the space-time of the shot and the space-time of the out-of-shot space described by the author is defined by several types of out-of-shot spaces. The analysis of the film NORTH BY NORTHWEST serves as an example of the treatment of off-screen space. In the classic film, he shows that the off-screen space that exists in the context of the diegetic world can be homogeneous (a continuously connected space), radically heterogeneous (in the sense of Deleuze's absolute aspect of the off-screen space), or heterogeneous (when it is both continuous, i.e. adjacent to the edges of the frame, and "foreign," i.e. referring to some indefinable outside).
Keywords: Na sever Severozápadní linkou 1959, off-screen field, image framing, space-time
Published: September 1, 2003 Show citation
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