Impure Cinema Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film

'This well-conceived collection takes up Bazin's call for an impure cinema - Nagib and Jerslev have brought together contributors of both great experience and huge promise. This book allows us a less circumscribed and more joyous access to world cinema.' - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, ARC Professorial Future Fellow in Comparative Film and Cultural Studies, University of New South Wales 'Seizing the controversial implications of the concept of impurity, this book makes a major contribution to debates about how and why the cinema is always implicated in political landscapes.' - Jackie Stacey, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Manchester 'Impure Cinema provides a much needed discussion of the relation between cinema and the other arts.' - Torben Grodal, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen