
Gabriele Pedullà’s In Broad Daylight
In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After the Cinema, by Gabriele Pedullà, translated by Patricia Gaborik. London: Verso, 2012. 192 pages.
GABRIELE PEDULLÀ’S charming and highly readable if ultimately frustrating little book In Broad Daylight tackles a crucial subjectand one that demands more attention: the recent transformation of film spectatorship and of the places where we watch movies. Indeed, at this point, even to say places is to invoke old-fashioned habits: Situations or platforms may be more evocative of contemporary trends in moving-image viewing. Perdullà’s book traces the