Imaginations of Cinema-World

Archives, Collections, and Spatial Fabulations

Authors

  • Angela Prysthon Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7498-0951
  • Bruno Mesquita Malta de Alencar Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8275-0806
  • Lucca Nicoleli Adrião Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/e-comps.3289

Keywords:

Cinema-World, Archive, Visual geography

Abstract

Cinema is an artistic medium that, by reorganizing reality, creates new ways of perceiving the visible. Inspired by Benjamin and Borges, this article connects the notion of cinema-world to the ideas of archive, collection, and montage. First, we approach cinema as a geographic compendium; then, through analyses of documentaries by Mangini, Di Gianni, and De Seta, as well as the film Die Parallelstraße (1963) by Ferdinand Khittl, we build our argument in favor of geographic imaginations.

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Author Biographies

Angela Prysthon, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

Professora Titular do Programa em Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (PPGCom-UFPE). Doutora em Teoria Crítica pela Universidade de Nottingham.

Bruno Mesquita Malta de Alencar , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

Mestre em Comunicação pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (PPGCom-UFPE).

 

Lucca Nicoleli Adrião, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

Mestre em Comunicação pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (PPGCom-UFPE).

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Prysthon, A., Mesquita Malta de Alencar , B., & Nicoleli Adrião, L. (2026). Imaginations of Cinema-World: Archives, Collections, and Spatial Fabulations. E-Compós. https://doi.org/10.30962/e-comps.3289

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