Film and Video Intermediality : The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images

In __Film and Video Intermediality__, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions “what is meant by video?” and “what is meant by film?” How are these two media (to be) understood? How can film and video be defined as distinct, specific media? In this era of mixed moving media, it is vital to ask these questions precisely and especially on the media of video and film. Mapping the specificity of film and video is indispensable in analyzing and understanding the many contemporary intermedial objects in which film and video are mixed or combined. Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A Voyage on the North Sea -- PART I THE REALITY EFFECT -- INTRODUCTION: FROM REAL TO REEL IN BENNY'S VIDEO -- CHAPTER 1 REALITY EFFECTS: LITERATURE, FILM, AND VIDEO -- Expanding "The Reality Effect"--CHAPTER 2 DEVICES IN VIDEO -- (Re)turning to (Benny's) Video -- Intermezzo: growing conventions -- Mobile video -- Static shots and surveillance -- CHAPTER 3 DEVICES IN FILM -- From setting to surface -- Conventionally constructed surveyability -- CHAPTER 4 SLIDING SCALES -- Degrees of belief -- Kinds of reality -- CHAPTER 5 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND THE REALITY EFFECT -- Adding the field -- CHAPTER 6 INTERACTION: BETWEEN REALITY EFFECTS -- Film's video -- Video proving film -- The contributing and counteracting narrator -- Exposing video -- Features casting doubt -- The outstripping narrator -- The double illusion of visual access -- More vision(s) -- PART II (DIS)EMBODIMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 7 DISPOSITIF: AN EXPANDED LAYERED STRUCTURE -- Comparing concepts -- Mixing, expanding, multiplying -- CHAPTER 8 (DIS)EMBODYING DISPOSITIFS -- Here, now/there, then -- CHAPTER 9 FILM'S DISEMBODYING DISPOSITIF: AN EFFECT OF AN EFFECT -- Blotting out the body: splitting worlds -- CHAPTER 10 OTHER VIEWS ON FILM VIEWING -- CHAPTER 11 SURFACES AND SCREENS: VIDEO'S EMBODYING DISPOSITIFS -- CHAPTER 12 IN BETWEEN: THREE INTERMEDIAL INSTALLATIONS -- Two journeys: k.364 -- Being in American Car -- PART III SOCIAL STRUCTURES -- INTRODUCTION: FRAMING THE MEDIUM -- CHAPTER 13 THE MEDIUM, THE MEDIA, AND THE SOCIAL -- Documentation and production -- The medium is the master -- The medium as social practice -- CHAPTER 14 VIDEO: FLOW AND FEEDBACK -- Antisocial flow, narcissistic feedback -- Relational immediacy, social flexibility