INTERMEDIALITY AND WORLD CINEMA

The aim of this workshop is to discuss the relevance of an intermedial approach to the study of world cinema. We bring together scholars working in different parts of the world who have been engaged in extensive researches in the past few years that fit under the umbrella defined by these keywords and who have produced exciting new books, along with several journal issues and articles (with more on the way). Through short individual reflections and a round-table style debate, we intend not only to showcase the major findings of these researchers by summarizing the results and highlighting the specific areas that they have covered, but also to dissect key issues that have emerged through their work.

The workshop will officially launch our own book, Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema (edited by Ágnes Pethő, published by Edinburgh University Press, 2020), a collection of essays that explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the collapse of the former Eastern bloc.

In addition, discussions be based on the following publications presented by their authors:

• The special dossier of Screen (Volume 60, Issue 1 Spring 2019): Intermediality in Brazilian cinema: the case of Tropicália and the special issue of Alphaville (19/2020): Performing the Intermedial across Brazilian Cinema. These contain some of the output of a massive research project lead by Lúcia Nagib that attempted a widespread investigation of the intermedial history of Brazilian cinema and teamed up researchers from the University of Reading (UK) with scholars from the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil).
• Lalitha Gopalan’s Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India (published by Palgrave McMillan, 2020), which explores contemporary independent Indian cinema with a special attention to the complexities of intermedial connections.
• Marion Schmid’s Intermedial Dialogues. The French New Wave and the Other Arts (published by Edinburgh University Press, 2019), a comprehensive study of the French New Wave’s relationship with the older arts.
• Lúcia Nagib’s Realist Cinema as World Cinema. Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (published by Amsterdam University Press, 2020), which proposes that we see world cinema as a cinema connected to reality through specific modes of production, and intermediality as a channel to historical and political reality.

The event is planned as a relaxed, friendly meeting and exchange of ideas among scholars working in the similar field, as well as a possible source of inspiration for further endeavours.

Organizers: The Centre for Cinematic Intermediality and Visual Culture, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in collaboration with the Regional Committee in Cluj of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The meeting is held via Zoom.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93388080652
Meeting ID: 933 8808 0652

We welcome anyone interested in meeting us and spending an afternoon talking about these topics. Participation is free. There is no need to pre-register.

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