The Aesthetic and Social Position of Cinematic Spaces Based on Walter Benjamin's Notions

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 P. H. D., Student, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 P. H. D., Professor of Dramatic Literature Department, Faculty of Arts, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

3 P. H. D., Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/ias.2020.250510.1370

Abstract

At the present time, cinema is one of the key entertainments in societies; it is an entertainment mixed with art, artistic and an aesthetic atmosphere. Examining the aesthetic category of cinematic spaces based on modern theories can be effective in creating a new understanding of this art and its applications. Interdisciplinary research creates a space between participating disciplines and focuses on areas of overlap between disciplines. The present research is written in a descriptive and analytical way by relying on data from library sources. In this research, the relationships are completely relative and the participating parties can benefit from the assumptions and interdisciplines involved. City and cinema, as two products of modernity, have similarities and common features that provide the field for interdisciplinary studies. One of the characteristics of modernity is the creation of the character of a wanderer in the city, a person who walks freely in the city and explores without any purpose. The moviegoer can also be considered a kind of wanderer in the world of the movie, in the process of watching the movie, he wanders in another world; a world that does not have a clear beginning and end and its path is formed through camera angles and the director's gaze.

Research aims:
1. Investigating cinema as an entertainment in modern societies.
2. Discovering the aesthetic and social situations of cinematic spaces based on Walter Benjamin's ideas.

Research questions:
1. What role can cinema spaces play in creating entertainment in modern societies?
2. What place do aesthetics and social situations based on Walter Benjamin's ideas have in cinematic spaces?

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Islamic Art Studies
Volume 18, Issue 44
February 2021
Pages 391-407

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