Film and video intermediality: the question of medium specificity in contemporary
Houwen, JannaUnknown
Bloomsbury Academic (New York, 2019) (eng) English9781501349003UnknownUnknownVIDEO RECORDINGS-PHILOSOPHY; UnknownIn Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions "what is meant by video?" and "what is meant by film?" How are these two media (to be) understood? How can film and video be defined as distinct, specific media? In this era of mixed moving media, it is vital to ask these questions precisely and especially on the media of video and film. Mapping the specificity of film and video is indispensable in analyzing and understanding the many contemporary intermedial objects in which film and video are mixed or combined.
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viii, 332 p.23 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Part 1: The Reality Effect
1 Reality Effects: Literature, Film and Video
2 Devices in Video
3 Devices in Film
4 Sliding Scales
5 Mediumspecificity and the Reality Effect
6 Interaction
Part 2: (Dis)embodiment
7 Dispositif: A New Layered Structure
8 (Dis)Embodying Dispositifs
9 Cinema's Disembodying Dispositif: An Effect of an Effect
10 Other Views on Film Viewing
11 Surfaces and Screens: Video's Embodying Dispositifs
12 In Between: Three Intermedial Installations
Part 3: Social Structures
13 The Medium,The Media and The Social
14 Video: Flow and Feedback
15 Film: Private/Production
16 Electronic Diaries, Cinematic Stories
Part 4: Violent Features
17 Objective Representation
18 The Production of Portable Objects
19 Freezing
20 Touching
21 Surveillance
22 Voyeurism
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Films and Videos
Index