Transition, circularity and haptic space in the representation of the city. From Ruth Rendell’s Live Flesh to Pedro Almodóvar’s Carne Trémula

Abstract

This article addresses the representation of urban space in film, through the analysis of the film adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s Live Flesh by the Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar. This film is a cross-cultural re-elaboration based on the initial set-up of the original plot, using Madrid as a setting, with significant presence of the city, approached in historical context. The representation of the metropolis links together aspects of form and content, rendering a mobile perspective of architectural and sociological features that illustrate current theorization on urban space and film. The interior scenes also reveal a fusion of discourse space and story space in the creation of haptic experience for phenomenological reception by spectators.

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