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Impure Cinema

Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film. World Cinema

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Published: 24th Oct 2013
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 21mm
Weight: 653g
ISBN-10: 178076510X
ISBN-13: 9781780765105
Barcode No: 9781780765105
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Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's interbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In contemporary progressive film criticism, ideas of purity, essence and origin have been superseded by favourable approaches to 'hybridization', 'transnationalism', 'multiculturalism' and cross-fertilizations of all sorts. Impure Cinema builds on this idea in novel and exciting ways, as it draws on cinema's combination of intermedial and intercultural aspects as a means to bridge the divide between studies of aesthetics and culture. Film is revealed here as the location par excellence of media encounters, mutual questioning and self-dissolution into post-medium experiments. Most importantly, the book argues, film's intermedial relations can only be properly understood if their cultural determinants are taken into account. Scholars and students of film, cinefiles and students of the arts will discover here unexpected connections across many artistic practices.

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'This well-conceived collection takes up Bazin's call for an impure cinema - Nagib and Jerslev have brought together contributors of both great experience and huge promise. This book allows us a less circumscribed and more joyous access to world cinema.' Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, ARC Professorial Future Fellow in Comparative Film and Cultural Studies, University of New South Wales 'Seizing the controversial implications of the concept of impurity, this book makes a major contribution to debates about how and why the cinema is always implicated in political landscapes.' Jackie Stacey, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Manchester 'Impure Cinema provides a much needed discussion of the relation between cinema and the other arts.' Torben Grodal, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen