Department of Film, Theatre & Television II INTERMIDIA CONFERENCE THE MOVING FORM OF FILM: EXPLORING INTERMEDIALITY AS A HISTRIOGRAPHIC METHOD Photo: ‘Artérias’ © Francisco Baccaro Further details on: www.reading.ac.uk/intermidia Support: AHRC, FAPESP, For information, please contact: [email protected] University of Reading 6 – 8 November 2017 University of Reading UK AHRC FAPESP The Arts and Humanities Research Council Founded in 1962, the São Paulo State (AHRC) funds world-class, independent Research Foundation (FAPESP) is one researchers in a wide range of subjects: of Brazil’s most important science and ancient history, modern dance, archaeology, technology funding agencies. Maintained digital content, philosophy, English literature, by the transfer of 1% of the state’s tax design, the creative and performing arts, revenue, FAPESP selects and supports Conference II Intermedia and much more. 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LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS AMBITION | LIMITLESS IMPACT II INTERMIDIA CONFERENCE THE MOVING FORM OF FILM: EXPLORING INTERMEDIALITY AS A HISTORIOGRAPHIC METHOD 6–8 November 2017 Minghella Building Whiteknights Campus University of Reading Reading RG6 7BT As part of the AHRC/FAPESP-funded IntermIdia Project (www.reading.ac.uk/intermidia), led by investigators from the University of Reading (UoR), UK, and the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, this international conference will discuss intermediality as a historiographic method. Conference Convenor Prof Lúcia Nagib UoR Investigators UFSCar Investigators Prof Lúcia Nagib (PI) Dr Luciana Corrêa de Araújo (PI) Prof John Gibbs (Co-I) Dr Flávia Cesarino Costa (Co-I) Dr Lisa Purse (Co-I) Dr Samuel Paiva (Co-I) Alison Butler (Co-I) Dr Suzana Reck Miranda (Co-I) Dr Stefan Solomon (PDRA) Dr Margarida Adamatti (PDRA) Dr Albert Elduque (PDRA) From its birth, the film medium has fuelled debates around its possible specificity versus its obvious connections with other arts and media. In recent days, with the advent of digital technologies that trigger and depend on media convergence, it has become indisputable that film is inherently intermedial, giving scope for reconsidering film history in light of the medium’s moving, all- encompassing form. As Alain Badiou summarises, it is impossible to think cinema outside of a general space made of its connections to the other arts. He says: ‘Cinema is the seventh art in a very particular sense. It does not add itself to the other six while remaining on the same level as them. Rather, it implies them – cinema is the ‘plus-one’ of the arts. It operates on the other arts, using them as its starting point, in a movement that subtracts them from themselves’ (2005: 79). This conference will build on such an understanding by investigating the ways in which intermediality, rather than obstructing, enhances film’s artistic endeavour. 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