Rethinking Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema: Changing Forms of In-Betweenness

Presentation

ABSTRACT AND OBJECTIVES:

The main objective of the research project is to identify some of the major directions in which cinematic intermediality has changed in the digital age determined by the affordances of the new media environment.

The media convergences and fusions characteristic of the so called postmedia age pose a challenge to the idea of productive "in-betweenness" of media that has emerged as one of the core tenets of the theory of intermediality. While the intermedial strategies of modernist cinema brought together the different arts and media in self-reflexive situations of dialogue or confrontation, today we see a two-way process. On the one hand we have the "explosion" of the cinematic medium itself through the multiplied technologies of image production, and there is a whole new range of intermedia relations occurring between traditional cinema and other forms of moving images. On the other hand, the "photographic," "the cinematic" or the "painterly" are no longer attributes of distinct arts, but have become sensations perceived in all kinds of images. Understanding intermediality in contemporary cinema requires its exploration in such a context.
One of the most influential theories addressing the way the digital age has brought about changes in the interrelation of media is centred on the idea of convergence, which emphasises how old and new media come together as parts of the same digital environment and information flow. In contrast, intermediality views media not in a digital "melting pot," but in productive interaction. Keeping in mind that one of the core tenets of the theory of intermediality is that we should always consider the prefix "inter-" indicative of a productive relationship that actively "does," "performs" something, our research proposes to discover areas where intermediality and convergence meet in a productive way: e.g. in which moving images exhibiting media fusions typical for the digital age are capable of conveying sensations of in-betweenness that can be harnessed to yield various effects and purposes.
We propose to unravel some of these complex new relationships of in-betweenness and to map the areas of change.
Based on our previous researches, we propose to initiate the research along 3 main avenues of investigation. A) Inflections of the photo-filmic, the intermedial folds of "tableau-cinema." B) The poetic strategies of merging the real with the intermedial. C) A shift from the in-betweenness of texts versus images/texts as images to situations of theatricality or performance in which there is a pronounced emphasis on speech performed in front of (and often, deliberately for) the camera.

The project attempts to solidify the theory of intermediality as a valid research paradigm within film studies, and to clarify relevant research axes for understanding contemporary intermedial phenomena in cinema. Through our conferences, research networking, presentations and publications we also expect to initiate a vivid international dialogue on the main issues proposed by the project.

ESTIMATED RESULTS: Publishing a special issue of the journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies (indexed in several academic databases, among which ERIH Plus and ESCI Web of Science) on the topic of the research project. Articles published and accepted to be published in academic journals or edited volumes published by internationally acknowledged publishing houses. At least one scientific volume dealing with the topic of the research accepted for publication by an internationally acknowledged publishing house (delivered at the end of the project in electronic manuscript). Presenting the results of the research at international conferences. Organizing three scientific events addressing the topic of the research project: two international conferences and a workshop.

Duration of the program: 12 July 2017- 31 December 2019.

THE RESEARCH TEAM:

Principal Investigator (PI): ÁGNES PETHŐ, PhD, Professor of Film Studies
Members of the research team:
HAJNAL KIRÁLY, PhD, experienced researcher
JUDIT PIELDNER, PhD, Associate Professor 
ANDREA VIRGINÁS, PhD, Associate Professor
MELINDA BLOS-JÁNI, PhD, Assistant Professor (Post-doc researcher)
ÁGNES BAKK, PhD student
MIHÁLY LAKATOS, MA student

RESULTS

Organization of scientific events (workshops & conferences)

A scientific workshop was organised for the purpose of officially launching the research project and to ensure its visibility through the public debate and presentation of the main issues that we propose to address through our researches on intermediality. See the programme of the two-day workshop here.

The workshop was accompanied by a complex exhibition of photo-video installation, with the title PHOTO-PROCESSING. The exhibition, presenting the works of Zoltán Balla and Emőke Kerekes, was inaugurated on the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and was curated by Melinda Blos-Jáni with the assistance of Mihály Lakatos.

INTERMEDIALITY NOW: REMAPPING IN-BETWEENNESS

18-20 October 2018. The first international conference organized within the framework of the research project. More information can be accessed here.

PHOTOS FROM THE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE BOOKLET WITH THE ABSTRACTS OF THE PRESENTATIONS

See the poster of the conference call:

YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEDICATED TO SAPIENTIA FILM CONFERENCES

Conference videos:

Interview with the philosopher and film theorist Raymond Bellour on the topic of the conference:

Keynote speech of Martine Beugnet (Paris, Diderot University):

Plenary talk of Joachim Paech (University of Konstanz) about the symbiosis of cinema and the art gallery:

THE PICTURESQUE: VISUAL PLEASURE AND INTERMEDIALITY IN-BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA, ART AND DIGITAL CULTURE

25-26 October 2019. The second international conference organized within the framework of the research project.

Conference videos:

Interview with Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading) about the topic of the conference:

Participation in international conferences

Contact Zones. Transnational Encounters, Dialogues and Self-Representation in Contemporary Eastern European Literature, Cinema and Visual Cultures, Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, 28-30 September 2017.

Papers presented at this conference by members of the research team:

• Ágnes Pethő (keynote lecture): Changing Strategies of In-Betweenness. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European Cinema
• Hajnal Király: The Text of Muteness in Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Family (Melo)dramas
• Judit Pieldner: Black-and-White Memories of the Past,Intermediality and Female Identity in Contemporary Polish and Czech Cinema
• Andrea Virginás: Disruptive Mobilities: Female Characters and Female Filmmakers in an Eastern European Diegetic and/or Industry Framework
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Re-Animating Oral Histories Through the Medium of Photography in Eastern European Documentaries

Small Cinemas Conference. Diversity in Glocal Cinemas: Language, Culture, Identity. Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, 20-22 September 2017.

Presentation at this conference:

• Ágnes Pethő  (plenary lecture): The Double Helix of Intermediality

Ágnes Pethő at 'The Moving Form of Film. Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method' Conference

Clash of Realities. International Conference on Art, Technology and Theory of Digital Games. organised by TH Cologne, Cologne Game Lab. 6-8 November, Cologne, Germany. Paper presented at this conference:

• Ágnes Bakk: Narrative Environments Using Game Design Mechanism in Performance Installations & VR (see the poster accompanying the presentation here)

Burgess 100 Budapest, A Symposium Celebrating Burgess's Centenary. 10 November 2017. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Paper presented at this conference (in the panel, 'Intermedial Burgess'):

• Hajnal Király : Metaphorical Mapping: Figurations of Intermediality in A Clockwork Orange - the Novel and the Film

International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, 14-17 November, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Paper presented at this conference:

• Ágnes Bakk: How Interactivity Is Changing in Immersive Performances - An Approach to Understanding the Use of Interactive Technologies in Performance Art

The Power of Immersion. Theatre - Affect - Politics, 9-13 April, 2018. Berlin, Freie Universität.
Prezentare orală:

• Ágnes Bakk: How Deep Is Your Immersion?

Border Crossings, International Conference, 20-21 April 2018, Universitatea Sapientia, Miercurea-Ciuc, Facultatea de Științe Economice, Socio-Umane și Inginerești.

Lucrări prezentate la această conferință în sesiunea intitulată "In-Betweenness, Border Transgressions in Film and Contemporary Art":

• Judit Pieldner: In-Between the Medial and the Political. Jafar Panahi's (Non-)Cinema
• Mihály Lakatos: The In-Betweenness of Non-Image, Sound, Place and Science: Ryoji Ikeda's Installation Works

The presentation of Mihály Lakatos at the 'Border Crossings' International Conference

The Great War(s): Our Story. Third International Conference on Balkan Cinema, 8-9 May, 2018. Romanian Academy, Bucharest

• Blos-Jáni Melinda: Photographic Passages into the Memory of the Second World War.

Copy-Past. Revaluating History, Memory and the Archive in Cinema, Performing Arts and Visual Culture,8-19 May, 2018, organized by Babeș-Bolyai University and "George Oprescu" Art Institute, Cluj-Napoca. Paper presented at this conference:

• Blos-Jáni Melinda: The Paradox Visibility of Recycled Photographs. Reframing the Past in Eastern European Non-Fiction Films

Post-Truth and the Moving Image: The Twelfth Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies, Tel Aviv Univerity, Israel, 4-6 June, 2018. The title of paper presented:

• Virginás Andrea: The Truth as Electronic Residue: on the Role of (Multiple) Screens in Diegetic Worlds.

The NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference: Media Tactics and Engagement, The Netherlands, 27-29 June 2018. The conference programme can be accessed here.

Two special panels organized by the research team to present and disseminate results of our research project:

The Politics of Intermediality 1. Affective Hypermediacies: Screens, Cameras and Human Interfaces

• Andrea Virginás: Electronic Screens as Surfaces of (Collective) Trauma in Contemporary European Film
• Judit Pieldner: The Camera in Home Arrest: Tactics of Non-Cinema in Jafar Panahi's Films
• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Total Immersion with Human Interface: Hypermediacies of VR Productions

The Politics of Intermediality 2. Engaging the Picturesque and the Anti-Picturesque

• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Precarious Aesthetic in Eastern European Nonfiction Films
• Hajnal Király: Intermedial Iconography as Accent in Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Cinema
• Ágnes Pethő: The Politics of the Picturesque: The Photofilmic and the Posthuman

Members of the research team at the NECS 2018: 'Media Tactics and Engagement' conference in Amsterdam

EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, 9-13 July. 2018. Title of the paper presented at this conference:

• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Analogue and Digital Immersive Experiences. What should Digital Creators Learn from Live Theatre Makers?

Symbiotic Cinema: Confluences between Film and Other Media, 6-8 September, 2018. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, Conference organized in collaboration with SERCIA - Société d'Études et de Recherches sur le Cinéma Anglophone. Papers presented at this conference:

• Judit Pieldner: The Dance of Intermediality in Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson
• Andrea Virginás: Television, Video and Computer Screens on the Cinematic Screen: Interart Tensions in Filmic Diegesis
• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Video Application as an Intertwining Agent for Different Media

INTERMEDIALITY NOW: REMAPPING IN-BETWEENNESS, 18-20 octombrie. 2018. Universitatea Sapientia, Cluj-Napoca, România. Lucrări prezentate:

• Hajnal Király: Painterly References and the Self-Reflexive Spectator of Contemporary Cinema
• Ágnes Pethő: The Photo-Filmic Diorama
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Editing History. Contemplative Montage in Eastern European Found Footage Cinema

Melinda Blos-Jáni presenting at the Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweenness Conference

• Andrea Virginás: Multiple Screens and (Meta)Diegetic Realities In Contemporary Films and Video Art
• Judit Pieldner: Sensations Of In-Betweenness in Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson
• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Embedded Liminal Experiences: VR-Experiences Framed by Performance Art

Ágnes Karolina Bakk at the Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweenness Conference

• Mihály Lakatos: The In-Betweenness of Nonimage, Sound, Place And Science: Ryoji Ikeda's Installation Works

Horváth Andor 75. emlékkonferencia (Conference in the memory of Andor Horváth). 8-9 March 2019. Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca. Presentation (in Hungarian):

• Andrea Virginás: Mindennapi allegóriáink: interkulturális, intermediális viszonyok a magyar és a román filmben (Allegories of Everyday: Intercultural, Intermedial Relations in Hungarian and Romanian films.
  

The NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference: Structures and Voices. Storytelling in Digital Times, Gdansk, Poland, 13-15 June. 2019. 
Papers presented in English:

• Ágnes Bakk: VR and Embodied Experience via the Horror Sensorium
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: In Between the Anthropologic and the Picturesque. Documentaries about the Danube Delta
• Hajnal Király: Voices and Noises (De)constructing the Narrative in László Nemes-Jeles's Films
• Mihály Lakatos: The Illusion of Control vs. The Control of an Illusion. The Intermedial and Interactive Narrative of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• Judit Pieldner: From Painting to Film Narration: Anamorphosis and the Quest for Meaning in András Jeles's Sinister Shadow
• Andrea Virginás: Electronic screens as intermedial mise-en-abymes: allegories for the post/digital age?

Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities, 18-19 October, 2019. Ghent (Belgium). Organized by: ECREA Film Studies Section in co-operation with DICIS (Digital Cinema Studies network), the Research Center for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp, the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University, the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center at the University of Antwerp.

We presented in special panel with the title 'Researching Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema' 4 papers about the results of our research project:

• Ágnes Pethő: Schools of Intermediality? Overlapping Paradigms and Divergent Perspectives
• Judit Pieldner: Figurations of Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European Cinema
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Intermedial Gestures in Contemporary Eastern European Documentaries
• Andrea Virginás: Screens as Places of Intermediality and Intercultural Clash

THE PICTURESQUE: VISUAL PLEASURE AND INTERMEDIALITY IN-BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA, ART AND DIGITAL CULTURE, 25-26 October 2019. Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca.

• Ágnes Pethő: Cinema in Watercolour. Joanna Hogg: The Souvenir (2019)
• Judit Pieldner: The Anamorphic Perspective in-between the Painterly and the Cinematic in András Jeles’s Sinister Shadow
• Hajnal Király: “Guilty Landscapes” – the Pictorial and the Picturesque in Contemporary (pseudo) Noirs
• Andrea Virginás:Television and Video Screens in Filmic Narratives: Theorizing Frame-Work
• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: The Pictoresque and Sensorial Elements of Analogue and Digital Spaces
• Mihály Lakatos: Jean-Michel Basquiat: Boom for Intermedial. From Streets to Galleries, from Galleries to Screens
• Blos-Jáni Melinda: From Landscape to Post-human Setting. Documentaries about the Danube Delta

A film(tudomány) hálózatai. Magyar Filmtudományi Társaság konferenciája - Networks of Film(studies). Conference organized by the Hungarian Association for Film Studies, 8-9 November 2019, Budapest, PPKE.

• Pethő Ágnes: Intermedialitás a filmművészetben. Elméleti megközelítések, kutatási irányok (Intermedialitaty in Film. Theoretical Approaches and Research Axes)

II. Zip-Scene: Conference on Analogue and Digital Immersive Spaces, MOME, Budapest, Hungary, 10-12 November 2019.

• Mihály Lakatos: A Walkthrough Movie: Intermediality and Interactivity in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

Publications

Articles in scientific journals indexed in international databases:

• Judit Pieldner: From Paragone to Symbiosis. Sensations of In-Betweenness in Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17: 23-45. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Sending Shivers Down the Spine: VR Productions as Seamed Mediums. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17: 143-157. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Ágnes Karolina Bakk: SPECIAL DOSSIER: VR IN-BETWEEN MEDIA. (Two interviews with international scholars) Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17:. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.:
  - VR as a Narcissistic Medium. Interview with Rebecca Rouse by Ágnes Karolina Bakk. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17:157-166.
  - Performativity and Worldmaking. Interview with Chiel M. Kattenbelt by Ágnes Karolina Bakk. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17: 167-176.
• Andrea Virginás: Television and Video Screens in Filmic Narratives: Medium. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17: 81-97. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Blos-Jáni Melinda: Fotografilus átjárók a múltba kortárs kelet-európai dokumentumfilmekben [Photographic Passages to the Past in Contemporary Eastern European Documentaries]. Korunk, 2019. 6: 42-51. (Indexed: CEEOL, Ebsco.)
• Pethő Ágnes: Sieranevada, avagy a köztesség művészete [Sieranevada or the Art of In-Betweenness] Korunk, 2019. 6: 51-60. (Indexed: CEEOL, Ebsco.)
• Pieldner Judit: Mágikus realizmus, minimalista realizmus és a tabló alakzata a kortárs magyar és román filmben [Magical Realism, Minimalist Realism and the Figuration of the Tableau in Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Films]. Korunk, 2019. 6: 32-42. (Indexed: CEEOL, Ebsco.)
• Virginás Andrea: A kortárs kelet-európai kötődésű film identitásáról és az intermediális művészetköziség alapfokú lehetőségéről [About the Identity of Films Connected to Eastern Europe and the Possibility of Basic Level Intermediality]. Korunk, 2019. 6: 23-32. (Indexed: CEEOL, Ebsco.)
• Andrea Virginás: Film Genre Patterns and Complex Narrative strategies in the Service of Authorship.Literatura i Kultura Popularna University of Wroclaw Vol. 24 (2018), 25-37. Indexed in: ERIH Plus, Europeana, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, ProQuest.
• Ágnes Pethő: Approaches to Studying Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 165-187. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Ágnes Pethő: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF INTERMEDIALITY STUDIES (Three interviews with scholars who defined the field), SPECIAL DOSSIER in Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 189-246. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
  - Introduction: Three Interviews with Scholars Who Defined the Field. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 189.
  - "A Good Concept Should Be Both Very Concrete and Very Abstract." Interview with Lars Elleström.Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 191-210.
  - "The Use of Other Media within Film as a Passage to Material Reality." Interview with Lúcia Nagib. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 211-228.
  - "Film Studies Always Need the Wider Approach of Intermediality." Interview with Joachim Paech.Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 229-246.
• Hajnal Király: An Uncanny Cinema, a Cinema of the Uncanny. The Trope of the Doll in the Films of Manoel de Oliveira. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 33-51. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Judit Pieldner: The Camera in House Arrest. Tactics of Non-Cinema in Jafar Panahi's Films. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 103-123. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Andrea Virginás: On the Role of Diegetic Electronic Screens in Contemporary European Films. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 87-102. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Sensing History. On the Uses of Medium-Specific Noise in Eastern European Found Footage Films. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 137-163. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.
• Andrea Virginás: Gendered Transmediation of the Digital from S1m0ne to Ex Machina: ‘Visual Pleasure' Reloaded? European Journal of English Studies, Volume 21, 2017 - Issue 3: FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN INTERMEDIAL STUDIES, 288-303. Indexat în: Web of Science: Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Current Contents: Arts and Humanities.
• Mihály Lakatos: Between Image, Sound and Big Data: Ryoji Ikeda's Intermedial Installations. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, Vol. 18, 2020. (forthcoming) Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.

Studies published in conference proceedings of internațional conferences:

Book chapters in edited volumes published by international scientific publishing houses:

• Ágnes Pethő: 'Exhibited Space' and Intermediality in the Films of Corneliu Porumboiu. In: The New Romanian Cinema, edited by Christina Stojanova, Edinburgh University Press, 2019: 65-80.
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Ephemeral History and Enduring Celluloid: Cinemtic Reality and Theatricality in Nae Caranfil's Films. In: The New Romanian Cinema, edited by Christina Stojanova, Edinburgh University Press, 2019: 93-107.
• Andrea Virginás: Traces of Genre in New Romanian Cinema: A Narrow Path for a Small Entity? In: The New Romanian Cinema, edited by Christina Stojanova, Edinburgh University Press, 2019: 180-193.
• Hajnal Király: Pop Music, Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dollybirds (1996) and Liza, the Fox Fairy (2015). In Ewa Mazierska, Zsolt Győri (eds.): Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018: 83-96.
• Ágnes Pethő: Studying Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European Cinema. In: Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Ágnes Pethő: Sculpture and Affect in Cinema's Expanded Field. From Aleksey Gherman Sr.'s Hard to be a God to Aleksey Gherman Jr.'s Under Electric Clouds. In: Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Ágnes Pethő: The Photo-Filmic and the Post-Human. Picturesque Landscapes at the Peripheries of Global Cinema. In: Kim Knowles and Marion Schmid (eds.): Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (forthcoming).
• Ágnes Pethő: The Photo-Filmic Diorama. In: Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli (eds.): Expanding Cinema: Theorising Film Through Contemporary Art, Amsterdam University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Ágnes Pethő: Intersections of Narrativity and Intermediality in Film. In: Márta Grabócz (ed.): Narratologie et les arts / Narratology and the Arts, Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Hajnal Király: Intermedially Emotional. Musical Mood-Cues, Disembodied Feelings in Contemporary Hungarian Melodramas. In: Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Judit Pieldner: Black-and-White Sensations of History and Female Identity in Contemporary Polish and Czech Cinema. In: Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Melinda Blos-Jáni: Photographic Passages to the Past in Eastern-European Nonfiction Films. In: Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Ágnes Bakk: Manipulation of Reality Through an Interactive Game: Remote X as an Example of New Modes of Spectatorship. In: Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca (eds.): Redefining Theatre Communities.International Perspectives on Community-Conscious Theatre-Making, 2020. (în curs de apariție)
• Andrea Virginás: Touch Me Not, by Adina Pintilie. In: Stephan Krause, Anke Pfeifer, and Dana Duma (eds.): Klassiker der Rumänien Cinema. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2020 (în curs de apariție)

Editing 2 special issues of an international scientific journal dedicated to issues addressed by the research:

• Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: In-Between Art and Life.(Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.). Read the articles here.

• Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2019. Vol. 17: Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweenness. (Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), CEEOL, FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals, NSD, etc.). The issue contains articles and interviews resulting from our  international conference organized on the topic of the research project in October 2018 (including the text of the keynote speech delivered at this conference).

 

Volumes accepted for publication at a prestigious publishing houses:

• Ágnes Pethő (ed.): Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality), 2020 (forthcoming)

• Ágnes Pethő: Cinema and Intermediality. The Passion for the In-Between. Second, enlarged edition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 (forthcoming)
• Király Hajnal: Film a határon. Tanulmányok a 2000-2015 közötti magyar és román filmről. (Film across Borders. Studies about Hungarian and Romanian cinema between 2000 and 2015) Egyetemi Műhely Kiadó (categoria CNCIS B), Cluj-Napoca, 2020 (forthcoming).
• Judit Pieldner: Adaptation, Remediation, Intermediality: Forms of In-Betweenness in Cinema. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2020 (forthcoming)

• Ágnes Pethő is a scientific advisor for the project 'Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method', supported by AHRC and FAPESP, based at the University of Reading (UK). In the context of this collaboration she presented a plenary lecture at the international conference organized within the framework of the research programme in 2017. (See the brochure of the conference here.)

• Research activity connected to: Film and the Other Arts. Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Creativity International Research Network through collaborations and the conference organized by the research team.

• Through the activity of one of our research project members, Ágnes Karolina Bakk, PhD student at MOME, Budapest, we were directly connected and acted as strategical partners in organizing two internațional conferences about digital interactivity and the possibilities of VR:
  - 8-10 November, 2018: I. Zip-Scene Conference. Analogue & Digital Immersive Environments, MOME (University of Art and Design Moholy-Nagy) Budapest.
  - 10-12 November 2019: II. Zip-Scene Conference on Analogue and Digital Immersive Spaces, MOME (University of Art and Design Moholy-Nagy) Budapest.
• Preparing for the NECS conference in 2019, in collaboration with a researcher from the Linnaeus University (Sweden), Nafiseh Mosavi, Andrea Virginás started a new, intermediality workgroup within NECS.
• In July 2019 we had a meeting with researchers working at the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain) witihin the research centre, Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation, with the aim of connecting our researches within this project to a wider international network of universities and research centres which have similar projects focusing on intermediality and with the purpose of taking concrete steps towards collaborations.