Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies. The volume invites readers from a range of disciplines - music, art, literature, history, cultural memory studies, anthropology or media studies - to consider how an intermedial aesthetics of the edge can enable these distinctive cultures to thrive.The languages of both cultures are presently endangered and the essays seek to connect notions of language with a culture which can align its traditions with the concerns of the present day.The collection proceeds from a conceptual analysis of poetry film, peripheral vision and the concerns of peripheral communities to an examination of inventive practices in the film-poem, experimental video, film portrait, word-image, digitised music, sound-image and genre-contesta