Publication details
Intermediality and (Inter)media Reflexivity in Contemporary Cinema
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| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media Technology. Special Issue "What Is Intermedia?" |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | film; intermediality; reflexivity |
| Description | Intermedia reflexivity is a strategy of making structural differences between distinct media visible in hybrid forms of images. Reflexivity features as fundamental for all kinds of intermediality. Intermediality and reflexivity are inevitably bound together. Intermedia reflexivity can operate on both the representational level of image, and the level of diegesis. The first level is typical for experimenters like Godard or Greenaway, the latter for the fantastic cinema that uses digital special effects. Differences and similarities between them could be described against the background of recent theoretical conceptions of intermediality. Theory and history of media interrelations and self-reflexivity encompasses very different approaches, such as formalism, textual analysis, phenomenology, or media archaeology, and it is necessary to make use of different elements from them to describe the distinct features of intermedia reflexivity. |