Dear all, As mentioned in my last mail, Andrea Virginás will be our guest speaker at the IMS seminar tomorrow. Virginás will give a presentation (see abstract below), and there is no text to discuss, so no preparation for the seminar is needed, but if you are interested in knowing more about her work, she has provided us with a few reading suggestions in regards to her already published work. Presentation abstract: Screens as Places of Intermediality and Intercultural Clash (January 2021) Based on examples such as Ruben Östlund’s The Square (2017), Andrei Zvagintsev’s Loveless (2017) or Radu Jude’s I Don’t Care if We Go Down as Barbarians in History (2018), a sketch for linking the intermedial and intercultural aspects of embedding electronic screens (television, computer or mobile) within film diegetic worlds is suggested. These framed spectacles separate worlds of different scales: the richly textured (first-level) diegesis and the de-saturated, blurry or pixelated displays of the electronic screens. Contained within diegeses and actual media apparatuses, they have the gentle power of re-presenting collectively traumatic happenings that, nevertheless, are important for cultural memory. Reading suggestions: * On the role of diegetic electronic screens in contemporary European cinema.<https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ausfm.2018.15.issue-1/ausfm-201… Universitatis Sapientiae Film and Media Studies 2018 Vol 15 (1), 87-102. * Television and video screens in filmic narratives: medium specificity, noise and frame-work.<https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ausfm/17/1/article… Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Film and Media Studies 2019 Vol 16 (2), 81–96. * Electronic screens in film diegesis: modality modes and qualifying aspects of a formation enhanced by the post-digital era.<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-49679-1_4> In: Lars Elleström (ed): Beyond Media Borders: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Volume 1, 141–173. The zoom link is https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe