Guest Speaker: Andrea Virginás, 'Screens as places of intermediality and intercultural clash'

This seminar is in English.

We start the 2021 seminar season with Andrea Virginás (associate professor in the Media Department of Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), presenting on ‘Screens as places of intermediality and intercultural clash’.

Presentation abstract:

Based on examples such as Ruben Östlund’s The Square (2017), Andrei Zvagintsev’s Loveless (2017) or Radu Jude’s I Don’t Care if We Go Down as Barbarians in History (2018), a sketch for linking the intermedial and intercultural aspects of embedding electronic screens (television, computer or mobile) within film diegetic worlds is suggested. These framed spectacles separate worlds of different scales: the richly textured (first-level) diegesis and the de-saturated, blurry or pixelated displays of the electronic screens. Contained within diegeses and actual media apparatuses, they have the gentle power of re-presenting collectively traumatic happenings that, nevertheless, are important for cultural memory.

Reading suggestions:

• On the role of diegetic electronic screens in contemporary European cinema.Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Film and Media Studies 2018 Vol 15 (1), 87-102. 
• Television and video screens in filmic narratives: medium specificity, noise and frame-work. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Film and Media Studies 2019 Vol 16 (2), 81–96. 
• Electronic screens in film diegesis: modality modes and qualifying aspects of a formation enhanced by the post-digital era. In: Lars Elleström (ed): Beyond Media Borders: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Volume 1, 141–173.  

You are welcome to join the seminar on zoom by emailing us at ims@lnu.se

Photo: 'Aurora - Connecting Senses’, Cristina Pop-Tiron & Signe Kjær Jensen