Full Description
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies.
The volume invites readers from a range of disciplines - music, art, literature, history, cultural memory studies, anthropology or media studies - to consider how an intermedial aesthetics of the edge can enable these distinctive cultures to thrive. The languages of both cultures are presently endangered and the essays seek to connect notions of language with a culture which can align its traditions with the concerns of the present day. The collection proceeds from a conceptual analysis of poetry film, peripheral vision and the concerns of peripheral communities to an examination of inventive practices in the film-poem, experimental video, film portrait, word-image, digitised music, sound-image and genre-contestant narratives. The collection also includes contributions from creative practitioners who utilize a range of hybrid forms to revitalize the traditional vernacular cultures of Scotland and Brittany.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, film studies, media studies, music, cultural theory, and philosophy.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I: Film-Poetry and Cultural Resilience 2. In Praise of Peripheral Vision: Films about Poetry and Poems about Film 3. Voice and Identifying New Diegetic and Dialogic Frameworks in the Poetry Film 4. Film and Identity: Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait (Margaret Tait, 1964) 5. Borders and Lines of Fracture: John Burnside, Roseanne Watt and Havergey Part II: Spaces, Places, History and Politics and Intermedial Practice 6. The Moving and the Static: Radical Re-imaginings in the Works of Daniel Reeves and Helen MacAlister 7. "the lightest membrane between you and the landscape": Thomas A Clark's Practice and Film Poems" 8. Post-naturalist Figurative Strategies in Breton-language Public Television Documentaries: the Case of Plijadur an Ijin by Mikael Baudu 9. The Representation of St Kilda in Contemporary Creative Works in Literature in French and in Art 10. The National Theatre of Scotland and Multimediality: Lament for Sheku Bayoh (2020) and How The Earth Must See Itself (2020) Part III: Sonorous Landscapes 11. Musical Settings as Cultural Weapons: Some Archipelagic Thoughts 12. Yann Madec and Pierre Stéphan's Diafonik: Across Matter, Contexts and Time 13. Eternal Surging: Consciousness and the Sonorous Gaelic Landscape
