Cinema Between Media

An Intermediality Approach

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by Jørgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik

Type

Studies

Subject

General

Keywords

arts, theory, scriptwriting, intermedia

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 168 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-2901-6

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Book Presentation:
Offers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema

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 par 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.

Key Features
• Provides a theoretical introduction discussing the relationship between intermediality theory, film theory and film analysis
• Offers a film analytical model using intermediality theory
• Features seven in-depth case studies ranging from Citize Kane to Birdman and Chasing Ice Case Studies
• Citizen Kane by Orson Welles
• Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Louder than Bombs by Joakim Trier
• Eternal Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) by Jan Troell
• Howl by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
• Zero Dark Thirty by Kathryn Bigelow
• Chasing Ice by Jeff Orlowski
• Ice and Sky (La glace et le ciel) by Luc Jacquet

About the authors:
Jørgen Bruhn is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermediality at Linnaeus University.
Anne Gjelsvik is a Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She has published extensively in both English and Norwegian. Her most recent book was Bearbeidelser. 22. juli i ord og bilder, about artistic treatments of the 2011 terror attacks in Norway. Among her other publications are Cinema Between Media, co-written with Jørgen Bruhn, and the edited collection Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements (co-edited with Rikke Schubart).

Press Reviews:
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

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press