Cinema Between Media An Intermediality Approach

by Bruhn, Jørgen; Gjelsvik, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781474429016
• ISBN10: 1474429017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-09-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Cinema has always been a mixed medium, sharing its basic form with photography, borrowing heavily from performing arts and the novel, and combining medialities like painting and music. But although it could be argued that cinema is the intermedial art form per excellence, this insight has not affected film analysis as much as might be expected. 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.

Author Biography

Jørgen Bruhn is professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Anne Gjelsvik is professor in film studies, Department of Art and Media Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Norway.

Table of Contents

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