A Brief History of Darkness: A Defense of Movie Theaters in the Streaming Era
Original title: Breve historia de la oscuridad
A beautiful, emotional, and committed vindication of darkness as a space of freedom, resistance, knowledge, and transgression.
In our culture, we tend to associate darkness with evil, fear, ignorance, and barbarism, but sometimes it can be a welcoming refuge. This is the case with movie theaters, sanctuaries in which myths, desires, and ideals are forged; temples of pleasure in whose artificial night we can release our repressed emotions and seek answers that we rarely find in the light of day. In our present of multiple screens, this book vindicates —without nostalgia or resignation— the cinemas in which spectators share hopes and anxieties, dreams and nightmares. The darkness of these rooms is illuminating.
A beautiful, emotional, and committed vindication of darkness as a space of freedom, resistance, knowledge, and transgression.
In our culture, we tend to associate darkness with evil, fear, ignorance, and barbarism, but sometimes it can be a welcoming refuge. This is the case with movie theaters, sanctuaries in which myths, desires, and ideals are forged; temples of pleasure in whose artificial night we can release our repressed emotions and seek answers that we rarely find in the light of day. In our present of multiple screens, this book vindicates —without nostalgia or resignation— the cinemas in which spectators share hopes and anxieties, dreams and nightmares. The darkness of these rooms is illuminating.