DELC Research Seminar Series: Ágnes Pethő In brief Date - 24 April 2024 Venue - Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square Speaker - Professor Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia University) Title - Cinematicity and Affective Intermediality About the event by Professor Ágnes Pethő Cinematic sensations have become a ubiquitous part of our lives, of a world unfolding as a moving spectacle in front of our eyes. Furthermore, today’s media landscape is dominated by the diverse forms of digital images coexisting with the traditional arts. Accordingly, the study of cinematic intermediality needs to remap its own terrain to include more subtle interactions within this new area of intermedial connections occurring between the old and new regimes of images, between the traditional theatrical cinematic experience and the cinematicity of artworks in a gallery, of moving images on our digital devices. “Cinematicity” can be attributed to various forms of moving images, and – as Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau specify in their book on Cinematicity in Media History (2013) – it can only “be understood intermedially:” as any characteristic of cinema that we recognize in something other than cinema itself. It may precede and prefigure the invention of cinema, it can infuse literature, photography, painting, and new media, as well as everyday phenomena – and all of these can be self-reflexively highlighted in film. We need to consider therefore cinematicity as a highly challenging area of intermedial studies. In this presentation, I will address this challenge by focusing on films that foreground occurrences of cinematicity: through brief case studies of a variety of moving image artworks (experimental, gallery film, feature film made for cinema), I will explore the juxtaposition of stasis and motion, cinema and the other arts, the pre-cinematic impressions of audio-visual animation and the post-cinematic proliferation and relocation of cinematic experiences. These aesthetic strategies involving intermedial dialogues through cinematicity all convey an affective encounter with reality and accordingly, their particular politics of impurity highlighting the intersections of art and life, as well as key issues regarding our relationship with images. About the speaker Ágnes Pethő is Professor of Film Studies at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the author of the monograph, Cinema and Intermediality. The Passion for the In-Between (2011), which was revised and enlarged for the second edition in 2020. She has also written several articles and edited a series of books on topics related to intermediality in cinema, including Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Eastern European and Russian Cinema (2020), The Cinema of Sensations (2015), Film in the Post-Media Age (2012), Words and Images on the Screen (2008). She is the executive editor of the journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies (indexed and tracked for impact factor in the Web of Science – ESCI), which frequently publishes special issues and articles on intermediality. Currently she is the PI of the exploratory research project, Affective Intermediality. Cinema between Media, Sensation and Reality supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research. How to attend This event is free to attend and open to all. No registration required. About the seminar series The DELC Research Seminar Series (DRSS) encourages collaboration and coproduction between staff and students across European Languages and Cultures and beyond. Entry is free and everyone is welcome. No registration is necessary. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Apr 24 2024 17.30 - 18.30 DELC Research Seminar Series: Ágnes Pethő Join us for this in-person seminar by Professor Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia University), entitled 'Cinematicity and Affective Intermediality'. Screening Room G.04 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
DELC Research Seminar Series: Ágnes Pethő In brief Date - 24 April 2024 Venue - Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square Speaker - Professor Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia University) Title - Cinematicity and Affective Intermediality About the event by Professor Ágnes Pethő Cinematic sensations have become a ubiquitous part of our lives, of a world unfolding as a moving spectacle in front of our eyes. Furthermore, today’s media landscape is dominated by the diverse forms of digital images coexisting with the traditional arts. Accordingly, the study of cinematic intermediality needs to remap its own terrain to include more subtle interactions within this new area of intermedial connections occurring between the old and new regimes of images, between the traditional theatrical cinematic experience and the cinematicity of artworks in a gallery, of moving images on our digital devices. “Cinematicity” can be attributed to various forms of moving images, and – as Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau specify in their book on Cinematicity in Media History (2013) – it can only “be understood intermedially:” as any characteristic of cinema that we recognize in something other than cinema itself. It may precede and prefigure the invention of cinema, it can infuse literature, photography, painting, and new media, as well as everyday phenomena – and all of these can be self-reflexively highlighted in film. We need to consider therefore cinematicity as a highly challenging area of intermedial studies. In this presentation, I will address this challenge by focusing on films that foreground occurrences of cinematicity: through brief case studies of a variety of moving image artworks (experimental, gallery film, feature film made for cinema), I will explore the juxtaposition of stasis and motion, cinema and the other arts, the pre-cinematic impressions of audio-visual animation and the post-cinematic proliferation and relocation of cinematic experiences. These aesthetic strategies involving intermedial dialogues through cinematicity all convey an affective encounter with reality and accordingly, their particular politics of impurity highlighting the intersections of art and life, as well as key issues regarding our relationship with images. About the speaker Ágnes Pethő is Professor of Film Studies at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the author of the monograph, Cinema and Intermediality. The Passion for the In-Between (2011), which was revised and enlarged for the second edition in 2020. She has also written several articles and edited a series of books on topics related to intermediality in cinema, including Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Eastern European and Russian Cinema (2020), The Cinema of Sensations (2015), Film in the Post-Media Age (2012), Words and Images on the Screen (2008). She is the executive editor of the journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies (indexed and tracked for impact factor in the Web of Science – ESCI), which frequently publishes special issues and articles on intermediality. Currently she is the PI of the exploratory research project, Affective Intermediality. Cinema between Media, Sensation and Reality supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research. How to attend This event is free to attend and open to all. No registration required. About the seminar series The DELC Research Seminar Series (DRSS) encourages collaboration and coproduction between staff and students across European Languages and Cultures and beyond. Entry is free and everyone is welcome. No registration is necessary. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Apr 24 2024 17.30 - 18.30 DELC Research Seminar Series: Ágnes Pethő Join us for this in-person seminar by Professor Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia University), entitled 'Cinematicity and Affective Intermediality'. Screening Room G.04 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Apr 24 2024 17.30 - 18.30 DELC Research Seminar Series: Ágnes Pethő Join us for this in-person seminar by Professor Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia University), entitled 'Cinematicity and Affective Intermediality'.
