Cinemagoing as spatially contextualised cultural and social practice

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2016
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Ravazzoli, Elisa
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Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
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Cinemagoing as a sociocultural experience and the cinema theatre as a setting where that experience takes place are naturally linked to a certain notion of space. In fact, cinemagoing is a practice in which space is not only conceived and perceived but is also constructed; space and place are social constructs, always mediated by people’s experience and sociocultural processes. Likewise, the space of the cinema theatre is not a given but is continuously produced, reconstructed and reconfigured by audiences. This article analyses the dialectic relations between the notions of space and place and the experience of cinemagoing as a spatialised social practice and a cultural experience; it also investigates the cinema theatre as a physical, symbolic and mental setting. Overall, the article offers a theoretical reflection on the multiple notions of space in relation to cinemagoing
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Cinemagoing , Sociocultural experience , Spatialised social practice , Space
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Ravazzoli, E. (2016) 'Cinemagoing as spatially contextualised cultural and social practice', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 11, pp. 33–44. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.11.02