Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1

Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. He presides over the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. His recent publications have explored and developed basic semiotic, multimodal and intermedial concepts aiming at a theoretical model for understanding and analysing interrelations among dissimilar media.

• 1. The modalities of media II: An expanded model for understanding intermedial relations.- 2. A recalibration of theatre’s hypermediality.- 3. Multimodal acting and performing.- 4. Electronic screens in film diegesis: Modality modes and qualifying aspects of a formation enhanced by the post-digital era.- 5. Truthfulness and affect via digital mediation in audiovisual storytelling.- 6. Reading audiobooks.- 7. Language in digital motion: From ABCs to intermediality and why this matters for language learning.