Thinking Intermediality
Identity, Ethics and Aesthetics
Published on 29. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-80374-438-4 (ISBN)
Description
'This book excellently advocates for considering intermediality not just as a hybrid form, but as a mode of critical thinking that emerges from versatile aesthetic strategies capable of intertwining multiple perspectives on complex issues and cultural connections in our world. A unique contribution to the field that maps out new and exciting areas of study.' - Ágnes Petho, Professor of Film Studies, Sapientia University
This collection of essays asks what it means to think intermedially across art forms and media, continents and cultures, research fields and disciplines. Highlighting the intercultural and sociopolitical aspects of artistic creation, the contributors investigate intermedial practice as a potent means to interrogate constructions of identity, challenge power differentials, and unveil the ethical and aesthetic dimension of images. From the immersive visual attractions of the eighteenth-century eidophusikon to online drawing during the Covid-19 epidemic, the essays explore a diverse range of intermedial phenomena, including screen adaptation, the theatrical tableau, phototexts and cross-cultural translation. Casting new light on celebrated figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Marguerite Duras, Jacques Derrida, Orhan Pamuk and Yoko Tawada, as well as lesser-known artists, the book offers a unique perspective on intermediality as a vehicle for intercultural exchange and critical intervention.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
21 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80374-438-4 (9781803744384)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
François Giraud is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he currently teaches documentary aesthetics, theories of intermediality as well as French language and culture. He is the author of Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema (2023).
Marion Schmid is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications on intermediality include Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts (2019) and the edited collection Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice (2021, with Kim Knowles).
Content
List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction, Francois Giraud and Marion Schmid - PART I Entangled Forms: Visual Arts, Performance and Technology - 1 The World in Miniature: Philip de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon (1781), Alex Watson - 2 The Theatrical Tableau as a New Horizon of Visual Images: A Study of Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro, Kaori Oku - 3 Voluptuous Dimensionality: The Intermedial Sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, Alice Blackhurst - 4 Intermediality and Ethics: The Practice of Online Life Drawing During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Francois Giraud - PART II The Moving Image: Queerness, Ethics and Aesthetics - 5 The Intermedial Image: Guy Gilles, Proust, l'art et la douleur (1971), Hugues Azerad and Marion Schmid - 6 'This Is a Book. This Is a Film. This Is Night': Politics, Ethics and Intermedial Form in Marguerite Duras's L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, Katie Pleming - 7 Queering Romeo and Juliet on Contemporary European Screens: Intermediality, Queer Futurity and the Short Film, Inma Sanchez Garcia - PART III Intercultural Text and Image Relations - 8 Dazzling Rem(a)inders: Photographs and/of Ruins (Jacques Derrida, Denis Roche, Orhan Pamuk), Fabien Arribert-Narce - 9 Michel Butor's Sentimental Journeys through Japan: Photography and Writing in Tables d'orientation (1993) and Cent instants japonais (2013), Matthis Hervieux - 10 The (In)Visibility of the Other: Photography and (Anti-)Representational Politics in Yoko Tawada's Das Bad, Xingtong Zhou - 11 Intermediality in Cross-Cultural Translation: Translating 'Japaneseness' in Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman, Rumiko Oyama - Notes on Contributors - Index