The Moving Form of Film

Historicising the Medium through Other Media

Lúcia Nagib, Stefan Solomon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-762171-4 (ISBN)

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The Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between film and other arts and media can provide an encompassing, inclusive, and non-teleological understanding of film history. Evolutionary narratives of cinema have traditionally adopted the Second World War as a watershed that separates 'classical' Hollywood films from 'modern' European productions, a scheme that subjects the entire world to the cinematic history of two hegemonic centres. In turn, histories of film as a technological medium have focused on the specificity of cinema as it gradually separated from the other art and medial forms - theatre, dance, fairground spectacle, painting, literature, still photography and other pre-cinematic modes.

Taking an ambitious step forward with relation to these approaches, this book focuses on the fluid quality of the film form by exploring an array of exciting and often neglected artistic expressions worldwide as they compare and interconnect films across temporal, geographical, and cultural borders. By observing the ebb and flow of film's contours within the bounds of other artistic and medial expressions, the chapters aspire to establish a flexible historical platform for the moving form of film, posited, from production to consumption, as a transforming and transformative medium.

Lúcia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. Stefan Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Stefan Solomon and Lúcia Nagib

Part I - Methodologies
1. Hegel, Cinema and the Other Arts
Alain Badiou
2. One-Dimensional Man? A Reply to Alain Badiou
James Hellings
3. Hybrid Variations on an Intermedial Theme
Robert Stam
4. Parallax Historiography and Metareference: The intramedial case of Nagasaki Shunichi's Heart, Beating in the Dark
Mark Player

Part II - Technologies and Environments
5. Intermediality and the Carousel Slide Projector
Julian Ross
6. Up the Junction, Intermediality and Social Change
Sarah Street
7. When the Past is Present: Digital Cinema and the Philosophical Toys of Pre-Cinema
Ismail Xavier
8. Panoramic Views, Planetary Visions: An Intermedial Analysis of Medium Earth and Walden Tiago de Luca
9. Elemental Intermedia
Stefan Solomon

Part III - National and Regional Phenomena
10. Cinema from the perspective of the stage: for an integrated history of theatrical entertainment in Brazil
Luciana Corrêa de Araújo
11. Flamenco on Screen: The Intermedial Legacy of Carmen Amaya in Bajarí
Albert Elduque
12. Impurity and Identification: Historicising Chinese Cinema through the Opera
Cecília Mello
13. Historicising the Story through Film and Music: An Intermedial Reading of Heimat 2
Lúcia Nagib

Part IV - Intermedial Artists
14. Stephen Dwoskin, an Intermedial Artist
Rachel Garfield, Jenny Chamarette and Darragh O'Donoghue
15. Intermedial Voices: Intersections in feminist sound and moving image
Claire M. Holdsworth
16. Entanglements of Intermediality: Polanski, Pinter, Steptoe and Son
Jonathan Bignell
17. The Intermedial Reworking of History in Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases Trilogy
Fátima Chinita

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	68 B&W
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	235 x 157 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	0-19-762171-6 / 0197621716
ISBN-13	978-0-19-762171-4 / 9780197621714
Zustand	Neuware