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Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love
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This study aims to analyze how ordinary real spaces are transformed into emotionally charged, atmospheric, and fictional spaces through cinematographic strategies by examining the relationship between cinema and architecture through Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000). Rather than using space as a passive background, the film produces an architectural narrative by rendering space an active narrative component associated with perception, memory, time, and ethical boundaries. In this context, the study reveals how space is reinterpreted and intensified through cinema and how it generates meaning through the viewer’s experience. The research adopts a qualitative and conceptual methodology, examining the film through two complementary frameworks: a cinematic–architectural analysis of spatial organization, scale, light, materiality, and framing, and a phenomenological interpretation focusing on atmosphere, time, repetition, and viewer experience. The analyses show that in In the Mood for Love, apartments, streets, corridors, and threshold spaces function not merely as physical settings but as spatial counterparts that make visible repressed emotions, socially shaped ethical hesitations, and states of temporal in-betweenness. The film’s non-linear, fragmented temporal structure, established through repetition, operates together with space to draw the viewer into an emotional and mnemonic experience, while liminal spaces spatially materialize ethical boundaries and internal tensions. In this regard, the study argues that cinema is not merely a tool that represents architecture, but rather offers a critical and experience-based field of thought that renders its sensory, temporal, and ethical dimensions visible, thereby providing a phenomenological contribution to architectural theory.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Mimari Tarih, Teori ve Eleştiri, Mimari Tasarım, Tasarım Kültürü ve Toplumsal Bağlam
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Haziran 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
9 Ocak 2026
Kabul Tarihi
15 Nisan 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Cilt: 14 Sayı: 2
APA
Selim, S., & Şimşek, C. F. (2026). Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love. Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning, 14(2), 157-175. https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK
AMA
1.Selim S, Şimşek CF. Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love. GUJSPB. 2026;14(2):157-175. https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK
Chicago
Selim, Sude, ve Cemile Feyzan Şimşek. 2026. “Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love”. Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning 14 (2): 157-75. https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK.
EndNote
Selim S, Şimşek CF (01 Haziran 2026) Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love. Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning 14 2 157–175.
IEEE
[1]S. Selim ve C. F. Şimşek, “Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love”, GUJSPB, c. 14, sy 2, ss. 157–175, Haz. 2026, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK
ISNAD
Selim, Sude - Şimşek, Cemile Feyzan. “Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love”. Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning 14/2 (01 Haziran 2026): 157-175. https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK.
JAMA
1.Selim S, Şimşek CF. Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love. GUJSPB. 2026;14:157–175.
MLA
Selim, Sude, ve Cemile Feyzan Şimşek. “Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love”. Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning, c. 14, sy 2, Haziran 2026, ss. 157-75, https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK.
Vancouver
1.Sude Selim, Cemile Feyzan Şimşek. Architecture Narratives: Atmosphere and Memory in In the Mood for Love. GUJSPB [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2026;14(2):157-75. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA92KP77JK