Landscapes in a multiverse: claims of place by audiovisual fiction
Visual culture. Place. Landscape. Comparative cinema. Film genres.
This thesis proposes to investigate the reiteration of some spaces in audiovisual culture. For this, it takes upon a review of the methodology of comparative cinema, as discussed by Mariana Souto, considering how this methodology can be applied to a study of audiovisualities that go beyond cinema and its established units (films). Based on this revisited comparative methodology, the thesis organizes these spatial reiterations in the concept of multiverse, analyzing especially four of these multiverses and their reappearances as fictional places in the audiovisual culture. The different enactments and framings of these places through their appearances and the way they are organized in genres are also questioned.