Ghosts of the City: A Spectrology of Cinematic Spaces

This paper investigates how, in early cinema, in-between spaces were created that were receptive to scenes of haunting. Adopting Derrida’s notions of a hauntology and a spectrology it argues for a genuine productivity of cinematic space that is able to build ghostly environments without incorporatin...

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Main Author: Petra Löffler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst 2015-09-01
Series:communication +1
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol4/iss1/9