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Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2

Lars Elleström Editor

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2 Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media

Editor Lars Elleström Department of Film and Literature Linnaeus University Växjö, Sweden

ISBN 978-3-030-49682-1    ISBN 978-3-030-49683-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49683-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021. This book is an open access publication. Open Access  This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Jay’s photo/gettyimages Cover design: eStudio Calamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Foreword: Mediations of Method

As the subtitle of the two volumes of Beyond Media Borders: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media makes clear, these reflections on media have the mission to begin where medium-specificity or, what I call slightly irreverently, medium-essentialism ends. The media under discussion here, considered from a great variety of perspectives, are all ‘multimodal’, set in more than one semiotic mode. The most readily understandable example we have rehearsed for so long would be, of course, cinema or television, the study of which in monodisciplinary departments seems to take for granted that they are media, whereas the inevitable combination of words and images, colour, sound, narrativity and technological effects clearly demonstrates that no single disciplinary framework w