Cinematic Intermediality

Theory and Practice

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Edited by Kim Knowles and Marion Schmid

Type

Studies

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, intermedia

Publishing date

2025 (August 29, 2025)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 224 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-4635-8

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Book Presentation:
This edited collection proposes new directions for understanding cinematic intermediality, mapping out innovative approaches to film’s relationship with some of its most influential artistic predecessors in the fields of performance, sculpture, painting, photography and dance. With essays by leading researchers and practitioners, this book investigates cinema's productive synergies and crossovers with the other arts through a broad range of avant-garde and experimental work. Mapping a trajectory from pre-cinema to the digital era, the book considers the impact of technological materiality on intermedial expression, incorporating both mainstream and experimental practice, world cinema and peripheral cinemas. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it opens up new pathways for thinking about how intermediality, as both a creative method and an interpretative paradigm, might be explored alongside probing questions of what cinema is, has been and can be.

About the authors:
Kim Knowles is Lecturer in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University and Experimental Film Programmer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the author of Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices (2020) and A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (2009/12).Marion Schmid is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications on film include Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts (2019), Chantal Akerman (2010), and Proust at the Movies (2005, with Martine Beugnet).

Press Reviews:
This book adds significantly to our understanding of the histories, theories, and practices of cinematic intermediality. It includes exquisite explorations of filmic works, and offers a space for filmmakers to describe their intermedial engagements and fascinations. At a moment where the definition of film is in transformation, this volume of essays reminds us that the ontology of film has always been in mutually productive conversation with other art forms, enriching and being enriched by that which both solidifies and sets into movement its medium specificity. -- Lucia Ruprecht, University of Cambridge

Together, these chapters succeed in updating the field of artistic intermediality on several fronts, pertinently adding to the ongoing theoretical debate and the empirical case studies available. This is undeniably a must-read book for that reason alone. [...] a fundamental overview of cinema’s performative dimension. -- Fátima Chinita ― Intermediality: A Performative Approach

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press