The Moving Form of Film
Historicising the Medium through Other Media
Published on 27. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-0-19-762171-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
This is a truly remarkable volume, not just on account of its list of distinguished contributors. Using intermediality as its method, this collection manages to establish this most precious of balance: a study of film form that never loses sight of the medium's historicity. Naguib and Solomon's book literally brims with useful theorizations and concepts. * Martine Beugnet, Universite de Paris *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
68 B&W
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-762171-4 (9780197621714)
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Persons
Lucia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading.
Stefan Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University
Stefan Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University
Content
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Stefan Solomon and Lucia 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 Correa de Araujo
11. Flamenco on Screen: The Intermedial Legacy of Carmen Amaya in Bajari
Albert Elduque
12. Impurity and Identification: Historicising Chinese Cinema through the Opera
Cecilia Mello
13. Historicising the Story through Film and Music: An Intermedial Reading of Heimat 2
Lucia 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
Fatima Chinita
Index
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Stefan Solomon and Lucia 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 Correa de Araujo
11. Flamenco on Screen: The Intermedial Legacy of Carmen Amaya in Bajari
Albert Elduque
12. Impurity and Identification: Historicising Chinese Cinema through the Opera
Cecilia Mello
13. Historicising the Story through Film and Music: An Intermedial Reading of Heimat 2
Lucia 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
Fatima Chinita
Index