Cinema Between Media

Jørgen Bruhn is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermediality at Linnaeus University.

'A highly accessible introduction to a powerful and exciting set of critical ideas, Cinema Between Media illuminates the way narrative film is crosshatched with the signs and artifacts of multiple media forms. This pathfinding book offers a new way of understanding cinema, and explores the promise of media-sensitive analysis for both classic and contemporary film.' Robert Burgoyne, Freie Universitat Berlin Cinema has always been a mixed medium, sharing its basic form with photography, borrowing heavily from performing arts and the novel, and combining medialities like painting and music. But although it could be argued that cinema is the intermedial art form par excellence, this insight has not affected film analysis as much as might be expected. Seeking to change our perceptions of cinema as a medium, Cinema Between Media draws on case studies to rethink cinema as an aesthetic form, and to raise new ideas about the practice of film analysis. Case studies include: Citizen Kane by Orson Welles Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu Louder than Bombs by Joakim Trier Eternal Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) by Jan Troell Howl by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Zero Dark Thirty by Kathryn Bigelow Chasing Ice by Jeff Orlowski Ice and Sky (La glace et le ciel) by Luc Jacquet Jørgen Bruhn is professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. Anne Gjelsvik is professor in film studies, Department of Art and Media Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Cover image: James Franco in Howl, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2010 (c) Oscilloscope Pictures/Photofest Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2901-6 Barcode