Future Directions in Intermediality and Multimodality

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Contributors

1. Introduction

Signe Kjaer Jensen and Matilda Davidsson

Ellestroem: His work and Vision

What is Intermediality?

Lars Ellestroem's Media Model

What is Multimodality?

Overview of This Book

References

Section 1: Modelling Intermediality and Multimodality

Introduction to Chapter 2: Media Taxonomy

Matilda Davidsson

Chapter 2. On the Problematics of Building a Formal Media System, or, Why Media Drive Me Crazy

Marie-Laure Ryan

Towards a Media Taxonomy

Comparison with Ellestroem's Model

From Tree to Forest Network

Beyond, or Within, Media Borders

Questions and Answers

References

Introduction to Chapter 3: Discussing Medium Specificity and Basic Media Categories

Matilda Davidsson

Chapter 3. Lars Ellestroem and Bottom-up Categorisation

Kamilla Elliott

Elliott and Ellestroem: Shared Traits

Ellestroem, Elliott, and Adaptation

Future Directions

Questions and Answers

References

Introduction to Chapter 4: Basics of Peircean Semiotics and Philosophy of Mind

Signe Kjaer Jensen

Chapter 4. Intermediality and Intersemiotic Translation on Self-Inspection

Joao Queiroz

Problems

Modeling Intersemiotic Translation (IT)

Some Implications

Questions and Answers

Acknowledgments

References

Introduction to Chapter 5: Comparing Intermedial and Multimodal Vocabulary

Signe Kjaer Jensen

Chapter 5. The Mutual Complementarity of Lars Ellestroem's Model of Intermediality and Current Approaches to Multimodality

John A. Bateman

Defining the Communicative Situation and Incorporating the Social

Combining Intermediality and Multimodality: Applying Textuality

Conclusion

Questions and Answers

References

Section 2: Art Historical Perspectives

Introduction to Chapter 6: Iconology and Media Aesthetics

Matilda Davidsson

Chapter 6. From Iconology to Media Aesthetics

W. J. T. Mitchell

Questions and Answers

References

Introduction to Chapter 7: Intertextuality and Quotation

Matilda Davidsson

Chapter 7. Citational Aesthetics: Media Meeting in Intermediality

Mieke Bal

Introduction: "Inter-" for Integration

Quoting Names (to Restore Names to the Dead)

Halting the News (to Give Time to Those Who Struggle)

Recycling Myths (to Bring Science and Religion into Discussion)

Characters as (Inter-) Media Products (to Bring Theory in for Sense-Making)

Art for the World

Questions and Answers

References

Section 3: New Media

Introduction to Chapter 8: How to Address the Borders of a Qualified Medium and to Situate 'Narrative' Within Ellestroem's Framework

Signe Kjaer Jensen

Chapter 8. How to Succeed in Intermediality Without Really Being Lars Ellestroem

Thomas Leitch

Restaurant Menus

Interactive Maps and Map Apps

Weather Reports

Conclusion

Questions and Answers

References

Introduction to Chapter 9: Halliday and Discursive Knowledge Construction in Multimodality

Signe Kjaer Jensen

Chapter 9. Everything is Intermedial

Kay O'Halloran

Ellestroem's Model of Intermediality

Social Semiotics and Human Experience

Technological Ages and Digital Media Technology

Questions and Answers

References

Afterword

Index