Film and Video Intermediality
Subtitle: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781501320972
Subjects: Cinematography; Video recording; Motion pictures
Description: In 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