Ebook: Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice

Outlines an innovative agenda for understanding film’s interaction with other art forms

• Opens up new critical perspectives for understanding the role of intermediality in moving image creation
• Broadens the traditional horizon of film studies, challenging mono-medial conceptions of film
• Offers a broad and inclusive view of cinematic intermediality, with a special emphasis on understudied avant-garde and experimental practice

As a fundamentally hybrid medium, cinema has always been defined by its interactions with other art forms such as painting, sculpture, photography, performance and dance. Taking the in-between nature of the cinematic medium as its starting point, this collection of essays maps out new directions for understanding the richly diverse ways in which artists and filmmakers draw on and reconfigure the other arts in their creative practice. From pre-cinema to the digital era, from avant-garde to world cinema and from the projection room to the gallery space, the contributors critically explore what happens when ideas, forms and feelings migrate from one art form to another. Giving voice to both theorists and moving image practitioners, Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice stimulates fresh thinking about how intermediality, as both a creative method and an interpretative paradigm, can be explored alongside probing questions of what cinema is, has been and can be.