Andreacute; Bazinrsquo;s famous article; lsquo;Pour un cineacute;ma impur: deacute;fense de lrsquo;adaptationrsquo;; was first translated into English simply as lsquo;In Defence of Mixed Cinemarsquo;; probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or racial resonances the word lsquo;impurersquo; might have. Impure Cinema goes back to Bazinrsquo;s original title precisely for its defence of impurity; applying it on the one hand to cinemarsquo;s interbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In contemporary progressive film criticism; ideas of purity; essence and origin have been superseded by favourable approaches to lsquo;hybridizationrsquo;; lsquo;transnationalismrsquo;; lsquo;multiculturalismrsquo; and cross-fertilizations of all sorts. Impure Cinema builds on this idea in novel and exciting ways; as it draws on cinemarsquo;s combination of intermedial and intercultural aspects as a means to bridge the divide between studies of aesthetics and culture. Film is revealed here as the location par excellence of media encounters; mutual questioning and self-dissolution into post-medium experiments. Most importantly; the book argues; filmrsquo;s intermedial relations can only be properly understood if their cultural determinants are taken into account. Scholars and students of film; cineacute;files and students of the arts will discover here unexpected connections across many artistic practices.
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