Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media

by Jørgen Bruhn (Editor), Beate Schirrmacher (Editor)

Overview

Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of media – including literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, addressing fiction and non-fiction, mass media and social media.

The detailed introduction offers a short history of the field and outlines the main theoretical approaches to the field. Part I explains the approach, examining and exemplifying the dimensions that construct every media product. The following sections offer practical examples and case studies using many examples, which will be familiar to students, from Sherlock Holmes and football, to news, vlogs and videogames.

This book is the only textbook taking both a theoretical and practical approach to intermedial studies. The book will be of use to students from a variety of disciplines looking at any form of adaptation, from comparative literature to film adaptations, fan fictions and spoken performances. The book equips students with the language and understanding to confidently and competently apply their own intermedial analysis to any text.

　

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000513974
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/17/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jørgen Bruhn is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. He has published on comparative literature, intermedial studies and intermedial aspects of ecocriticism.

Beate Schirrmacher is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. She has published on the intermedial relation of literature and music. Her current research explores the truth claims of media.

Table of Contents

Part One: INTRODUCING INTERMEDIAL STUDIES

1. Intermedial studies

Jørgen Bruhn and Beate Schirrmacher

2. Media and Modalities – Film

Signe Kjær Jensen and Niklas Salmose

3. Media and Modalities – Literature

Pedro Atã and Beate Schirrmacher

4. Media and Modalities – Music

Signe Kjær Jensen and Martin Knust

5. Media and Modalities – Computer Games

Peter Kristóf Makai

6. Media and Modalities – News Media

Kristoffer Holt and Beate Schirrmacher

Part Two: INTERMEDIAL ANALYSIS: The three fundamental intermedial relations

7. Media Combination, Transmediation and Media Representation

Jørgen Bruhn and Beate Schirrmacher

8. Intermedial Combinations

Mats Arvidson, Mikael Askander, Lea Wierød Borčak, Signe Kjaer Jensen and Nafiseh Mousavi

9. Transmediation

Jørgen Bruhn, Anna Gutowska, Martin Knust and Emma Tornborg

10. Representing Media: Film, Music and Painting in Literature

Jørgen Bruhn, Liviu Lutas, Niklas Salmose and Beate Schirrmacher

Part Three. APPLYING INTERMEDIAL PERSPECTIVES

11. Introduction to Part 3

Jørgen Bruhn and Beate Schirrmacher

12. The Intermediality of Performance

Per Bäckström, Heidrun Führer and Beate Schirrmacher

13. Truthfulness and Truth Claims as Transmedial Phenomena

Jørgen Bruhn, Niklas Salmose, Beate Schirrmacher and Emma Tornborg

14. Media Modalities of Theatrical Space

Heidrun Führer and Janneke Schoene

15. Transmedial storyworlds

Mikael Askander, Anna Gutowska, Peter Kristóf Makai

16. Intermediality and Social Media

Signe Kjær Jensen, Nafiseh Mousavi and Emma Tornborg

17. A Toolkit for the Intermedial Analysis of Computer Games

Peter Kristóf Makai