intermedial and intercultural approaches to film /
edited by Lúcia Nagib and Anne Jerslev
xxxi, 304 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Tauris world cinema series
Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. I. The history and politics of impurity -- From impurity to historicity -- The politics of impurity -- pt. II. Intertextual and intercultural dialogues -- Contestations of intercultural collaboration : the case of Whale rider -- Adapting Frida Kahlo : the film-paintings -- Transatlantic drift : hobos, slackers, Flâneurs, idiots and edukators -- Captain Swing the fearless : a Turkish film adaptation of an Italian Western comic strip -- pt. III. Literary impurities -- Adaptation by degree : a study of Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle thieves -- The supernatural from page to screen : Ambrose Bierce's and Robert Enrico's An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- pt. IV. Border-crossing films -- An art in the rough : the cinema of João César Monteiro -- Relational subjectivity, impure voice : the video essays of Agnès Varda, Bingöl Elmas and Kathy High -- Jia Zhangke's cinema and Chinese garden architecture -- Amidst landscapes of mobility : the embodied turn in contemporary Chinese cinema -- pt. V. Post-medium films -- Chantal Akerman : moving between cinema and installation -- Projection as performance : intermediality in Japan's expanded cinema -- Shooting for a cause : cyberactivism and genre hybridization in The Cove -- David Lynch between analogue and digital : Lost highway, The straight story and the Interview project