This project focuses on cinema’s nature as a mixture of arts and media in order to produce the first, groundbreaking intermedial history of Brazilian cinema. It will also explore the uses of intermediality as a historiographic method applicable to cinema as a whole. To that end, it will bring together scholars from the University of Reading and the Federal University of São Carlos, as well as three postdoctoral researchers, combining expertise in cinematic intermediality, Brazilian cinema, film history and film theory. Intermediality has never been applied to cinema as a historiographic method, which is being proposed in this project as an entirely original and promising avenue.
Academic Institutions and Academics:
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading – Professor Lúcia Nagib (PI), Ms Alison Butler (Co-I), Professor John Gibbs (Co-I), Dr Lisa Purse (Co-I), Dr Tamara Courage (PDRA), Dr Albert Elduque (PDRA), Mr Richard McKay (Research grant administrator), Dr Stefan Solomon (PDRA – former staff).
Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil) – Dr. Luciana Corrêa de Araújo (PI), Dr Samuel Paiva (Co-I), Dr Flávia Cesarino Costa (Co-I), Dr Suzana Reck Miranda (Co-I), Dr. Margarida Adamatti (PDRA)
Partner Institutions:
Tate Modern |
Reading Film Theatre |
Museu da Imagem e do Som |
Cinemateca Brasileira |
Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Federação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil) |
CFAC members involved:
Professor Lúcia Nagib (PI)
Ms Alison Butler (Co-I)
Professor John Gibbs (Co-I)
Dr Lisa Purse (Co-I)
Dr Tamara Courage (PDRA)
Dr Albert Elduque (PDRA)
Mr Richard McKay (Research grant administrator)
For more information about the IntermIdia project, see the project website here.