A highly accessible introduction to a powerful and exciting set of critical ideas, Cinema Between Media illuminates the way narrative film is cross-hatched with the signs and artifacts of multiple media forms. This pathfinding book offers a new way of understanding cinema, and explores the promise of media-sensitive analysis for both classic and contemporary film.
Professor Robert Burgoyne, Freie Universitat Berlin
Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant; and the narrative forms of literature, particularly the structure of the novel, have played important roles in shaping narrative cinema. The list of influencing forms goes on, and includes music, architecture, and painting. Following the more recent historical advents of technical media like the VCR and the DVD, and digitalisation and its effects, the notion of cinema as a mixed medium has become even more prominent within film theory. So cinema both has been and is intermedial. However, we argue that the acknowledgement of this has not affected the practice of film analysis to any great extent. This book on cinema and intermediality therefore rethinks both cinema as a form and the practice of film analysis, using concepts and analytical tools derived mainly from the fields of media theory and intermediality.
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Seeking to change our perceptions of cinema as a medium, Cinema Between Media draws on case studies of films like Zero Dark Thirty, Citizen Kane, Howl and Birdman to rethink cinema as an aesthetic form, and to raise new ideas about the practice of film analysis.
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Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction Cinema Between Media
Chapter 2: Media behind the Scene: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane
Chapter 3: Cinematic Theatre: Alejandro G. Inárritu’s Birdman
Chapter 4: A Novelist on Film? Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs
Chapter 5: Between Cinema and Photography: Jan Troell’s Eternal Moments
Chapter 6: Mixing senses and media: Epstein and Friedman’s Howl.
Chapter 7: Surveilling Media: Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.
Chapter 8: Cinematic representations of a "super wicked problem": climate change in documentary film (Ice and the Sky and Chasing Ice)
Chapter 9: Conclusion
List of illustrations
Film references
Bibliography
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Provides a theoretical introduction discussing the relationship between intermediality theory, film theory and film analysis
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474429016
Publisert
2018-06-05
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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