Cinema Between Media

Jørgen Bruhn is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermediality at Linnaeus University. Anne Gjelsvik is a Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She has published extensively in both English and Norwegian. Her most recent book was Bearbeidelser. 22. juli i ord og bilder, about artistic treatments of the 2011 terror attacks in Norway. Among her other publications are Cinema Between Media, co-written with Jørgen Bruhn, and the edited collection Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements (co-edited with Rikke Schubart).

A highly accessible introduction to a powerful and exciting set of critical ideas, Cinema Between Media illuminates the way narrative film is cross-hatched with the signs and artifacts of multiple media forms. This pathfinding book offers a new way of understanding cinema, and explores the promise of media-sensitive analysis for both classic and contemporary film.

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Cinema Between Media Chapter 2: Media behind the Scene: Orson Welles’s Citizen KaneChapter 3: Cinematic Theatre: Alejandro G. Inárritu’s BirdmanChapter 4: A Novelist on Film? Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs Chapter 5: Between Cinema and Photography: Jan Troell’s Eternal MomentsChapter 6: Mixing senses and media: Epstein and Friedman’s Howl.Chapter 7: Surveilling Media: Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.Chapter 8: Cinematic representations of a "super wicked problem": climate change in documentary film (Ice and the Sky and Chasing Ice)Chapter 9: ConclusionList of illustrationsFilm referencesBibliography