Intermediality in European Avant-garde Cinema

The book proposes a new perspective on avant-garde cinema, utilising approaches from intermediality to explore how the spirit of experimentation, a hallmark of historical avant-garde and post-war artistic movements, is still present in contemporary filmmaking today.

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Loukia Kostopoulou is a Senior Teaching and Research Fellow at the School of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she teaches film studies, audiovisual adaptation, and audiovisual translation at both undergraduate and graduate level. She is also a researcher and coordinator of the Media Research Group (at AUTh SemioLab). She has been a Visiting Scholar to several academic institutions, among which the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at Cyprus University of Technology, and New Bulgarian University. She has completed a postdoctoral research project at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications AUTh in the field of European avant-garde cinema. She is co-editor of The Fugue of the Five Senses and the Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium (Hellenic Semiotic Society, 2019), New Paths in Theatre Translation and Surtitling (Routledge, forthcoming), Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation: From Page to Screen to Stage (Routledge, forthcoming), and Managing Editor of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics.

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: European Avant-garde Cinema

2. Intermediality in Cinema

3. Jean-Luc Godard: Intermediality and Genre Hybridity in his Late Films

4. Stillness in Motion: Intermedial Encounters in Alexander Sokurov's Films

5. Cinema as Theatrical Space in Lars von Trier's Films

6. Conclusion: The Politics of Intermediality