A new volume of essays has been published by the Palgrave Macmillan
19/04/2026 12:45 PM

A volume summarizes the scientific findings of the research program funded by UEFISCDI (PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1297) and our major international conference held in 2023 as part of that program.

This collection highlights the often-overlooked affective performativity of intermediality, featuring diverse case studies from contemporary world cinema and moving image installation art.

Excerpt from the description of the book: "This book proposes a groundbreaking exploration into “affective intermediality,” an emerging paradigm that centres on the interplay between media, embodied experiences and material reality. At a time when the scholarly discourse on intermediality is still dominated by researches on literature and mass media, this collection of essays focuses on cinematic intermediality. It delves into the unique position of cinematic images being able to incorporate and to connect to all the other media, as well as being able to generate intense emotions and ethically illuminating experiences. The chapters investigate a wide array of topics from the representability of feelings and traumatic experiences, from cultural and sensorial entanglements to the gendered gaze and to various affective modalities of getting in touch with the world, including an attunement to non-anthropocentric perspectives. Through in-depth case studies, the book examines how intermedial art practices involving moving images can convey and engender specific sensibilities regarding reality and art. With contributions from both emerging and established scholars, the book highlights films from diverse geo-cultural contexts, also drawing attention to works by and about women."

The volume was published as part of the series Palgrave Studies in Intermediality and is accesible via Springer Nature Link: Ágnes Pethő (ed.): Affective Intermediality. Moving Images Between Media, Sensation and Reality. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Table of contents:

Affective Intermediality: An Introduction
Ágnes Pethő

Intermediality and Sensory Imagination
Feeling Like an Abstract Line with Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson
Laura U. Marks

Ghostly Intermediality: Zombie Media and Spectral Subjectivities in Penny Siopis's Films
Laura Rascaroli

Darkness as Affective Oscillation: Poetry in the Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami
Sanskriti Chattopadhyay, Deb Kamal Ganguly

The Affective Aura Reshaped? Experiencing Several Performances at Once: Tennessee Williams on the Screen
Polina Rybina

Life Into Art: Bodies as Mediums and Performances of the Self
The Vicarious Affect: Dying for Art in Chinese Cinema
Lúcia Nagib

Agnès Varda's Performative Media Transformations: Strange Encounters with Material Things and the Body in The Gleaners and I (2000)
Silvia Kurr

Performances of the Self and Affective Intermediality in Anna Nemes's and Kim Corbisier's Work
Hajnal Király

Performing Affections: Isabelle Huppert in Claude Chabrol's Madame Bovary (1991)
Chiara Tognolotti

Affective Landscapes and Intermedial Spaces
Affective Encounters. Approaching Changing Landscapes Through Intermediality in Films by Éric Rohmer and Agnès Varda
Giulia Lavarone

The Invention of Landscape. How to Rethink the Idea of Environment Through Intermedial Forms of Vision, from Michelangelo Antonioni's Enchanted Mountains to Anthropocene (2019)
Denis Brotto

Diasporic Encounters and Affective Cinematic Landscapes in Bas Devos's Film, Here (2023)
Katalin Sándor

Framing Nature and Framed by Nature. Ecocentric Vision in Thomas Ciulei's This Is It (2001)
Melinda Blos-Jáni

Uncanny Spaces of Intermediality in Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
Judit Pieldner

Affective Liminalities: Performing In-Betweenness
Between Now and Other Places: Intermedia Installations as Spatio-Temporal Facilitators of Affect
Andrea Thoma

A Touch of Liminality: The Phenomenology of the Threshold in Shirin Neshat's Artworks
Shahrzad Ghobadlou

"The Right to Opacity": Liminality and Intermedial Cinematicity in Alia Syed's Film Installation Fatima's Letter (1992)
Ágnes Pethő

Affective Intermediality in Experimental Animation: Unravelling the Threads of Indigenous Craft and Storytelling in Nina Sabnani's The Stitches Speak (2010)
Umme Maria

We hope you will find it thought-provoking. The book is accesible via the Springer Nature Link database:

Ágnes Pethő (ed.): Affective Intermediality. Moving Images Between Media, Sensation and Reality. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.