Impure Cinema : Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film.
Title:
Impure Cinema : Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film.
Author:
Nagib, Lúcia.
ISBN:
9780857723062
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Series:
Tauris World Cinema
Contents:
Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I - THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF IMPURITY -- 1. From Impurity to Historicity -- 2. The Politics of Impurity -- PART II - INTERTEXTUAL AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES -- 3. Contestations of Intercultural Collaboration: The Case of Whale Rider -- 4. Adapting Frida Kahlo: The Film-Paintings -- 5. Transatlantic Drift: Hobos, Slackers, Flâneurs, Idiots and Edukators -- 6. Captain Swing the Fearless: A Turkish Film Adaptation of an Italian Western Comic Strip -- PART III - LITERARY IMPURITIES -- 7. Adaptation by Degree: A Study of Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves -- 8. The Supernatural from Page to Screen: Ambrose Bierce's and Robert Enrico's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- PART IV - BORDER-CROSSING FILMS -- 9. An Art in the Rough: The Cinema of João César Monteiro -- 10. Relational Subjectivity, Impure Voice: The Video Essays of Agnès Varda, Bingöl Elmas and Kathy High -- 11. Jia Zhangke's Cinema and Chinese Garden Architecture -- 12. Amidst Landscapes of Mobility: The Embodie Turn in Contemporary Chinese Cinema -- PART V - POST-MEDIUM FILMS -- 13. Chantal Akerman: Moving Between Cinema and Installation -- 14. Projection as Performance: Intermediality in Japan's Expanded Cinema -- 15. Shooting for a Cause: Cyberactivism and Genre Hybridization in The Cove -- 16. David Lynch Between Analogue and Digital: Lost Highway, The Straight Story and the Interview Project -- Index.
Abstract:
André Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinéma impur: défense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defense of Mixed Cinema'. Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it, on the one hand, to cinema's interbreeding with other arts and, on the other, to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In current progressive film criticism, purity, essence and origin have been superseded by favourable approaches to 'hybridization', 'transnationalism', 'multiculturalism' and cross-fertilizations of all sorts. Impure Cinema builds on this idea in novel and exciting ways, as it draws on cinema's combination of intermedial and intercultural aspects as a means to bridge the divide between studies of aesthetics and culture. Film is viewed here as the location par excellence of media encounters and mutual questioning. Most importantly, the book argues, the relations between media that films embody can only be properly understood if their cultural determinants are taken into account. Scholars and students of film, cinéfiles, and students of the arts will discover here unexpected connections across many artistic practices.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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