Full Description
This collection brings together leading scholars across disciplines to reflect on the relationship between intermediality and multimodality and future directions for the contemporary mediascape, building on a 2022 Linnaeus University lecture series honouring the legacy of Lars Elleström, following his untimely death in December 2021.
The volume contributes to ongoing dialogues about media and society, the challenges and opportunities for academia to engage with developments in the evolving mediascape, and interdisciplinary pathways towards engaging with these questions. Each chapter features an established figure in such fields as multimodality, intermediality, semiotics, narratology, art history, and adaptation studies. Each essay is prefaced with an introduction by the editors and bookended with a discussion transcribed from the original live presentations. A concluding chapter looks ahead to future directions, opening new lines of inquiry around the possibilities for intermediality and multimodality research towards continuing to build on Elleström's seminal work in the field.
This book will be of interest to scholars in multimodality, intermediality, and media and communication studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Signe Kjaer Jensen and Matilda Davidsson
Elleström: His work and Vision
What is Intermediality?
Lars Elleström's Media Model
What is Multimodality?
Overview of This Book
References
Section 1: Modelling Intermediality and Multimodality
Introduction to Chapter 2: Media Taxonomy
Matilda Davidsson
Chapter 2. On the Problematics of Building a Formal Media System, or, Why Media Drive Me Crazy
Marie-Laure Ryan
Towards a Media Taxonomy
Comparison with Elleström's Model
From Tree to Forest Network
Beyond, or Within, Media Borders
Questions and Answers
References
Introduction to Chapter 3: Discussing Medium Specificity and Basic Media Categories
Matilda Davidsson
Chapter 3. Lars Elleström and Bottom-up Categorisation
Kamilla Elliott
Elliott and Elleström: Shared Traits
Elleström, Elliott, and Adaptation
Future Directions
Questions and Answers
References
Introduction to Chapter 4: Basics of Peircean Semiotics and Philosophy of Mind
Signe Kjaer Jensen
Chapter 4. Intermediality and Intersemiotic Translation on Self-Inspection
João Queiroz
Problems
Modeling Intersemiotic Translation (IT)
Some Implications
Questions and Answers
Acknowledgments
References
Introduction to Chapter 5: Comparing Intermedial and Multimodal Vocabulary
Signe Kjaer Jensen
Chapter 5. The Mutual Complementarity of Lars Elleström's Model of Intermediality and Current Approaches to Multimodality
John A. Bateman
Defining the Communicative Situation and Incorporating the Social
Combining Intermediality and Multimodality: Applying Textuality
Conclusion
Questions and Answers
References
Section 2: Art Historical Perspectives
Introduction to Chapter 6: Iconology and Media Aesthetics
Matilda Davidsson
Chapter 6. From Iconology to Media Aesthetics
W. J. T. Mitchell
Questions and Answers
References
Introduction to Chapter 7: Intertextuality and Quotation
Matilda Davidsson
Chapter 7. Citational Aesthetics: Media Meeting in Intermediality
Mieke Bal
Introduction: "Inter-" for Integration
Quoting Names (to Restore Names to the Dead)
Halting the News (to Give Time to Those Who Struggle)
Recycling Myths (to Bring Science and Religion into Discussion)
Characters as (Inter-) Media Products (to Bring Theory in for Sense-Making)
Art for the World
Questions and Answers
References
Section 3: New Media
Introduction to Chapter 8: How to Address the Borders of a Qualified Medium and to Situate 'Narrative' Within Elleström's Framework
Signe Kjaer Jensen
Chapter 8. How to Succeed in Intermediality Without Really Being Lars Elleström
Thomas Leitch
Restaurant Menus
Interactive Maps and Map Apps
Weather Reports
Conclusion
Questions and Answers
References
Introduction to Chapter 9: Halliday and Discursive Knowledge Construction in Multimodality
Signe Kjaer Jensen
Chapter 9. Everything is Intermedial
Kay O'Halloran
Elleström's Model of Intermediality
Social Semiotics and Human Experience
Technological Ages and Digital Media Technology
Questions and Answers
References
Afterword
Index
