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Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and the Legacy of Lars Elleström

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This chapter introduces The Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) and presents the theoretical and institutional legacy of its founder Lars Elleström to the field of intermedial studies. We present central aspects of his theoretical framework and we discuss how concepts such as the media product, the media modalities, and media transformation respond to central challenges in intermedial theory. Also, we demonstrate how they have been applied in intermedial analysis at IMS and internationally as a flexible framework that can be connected with approaches to media. Finally, we put forth some of the challenges to Elleström’s framework as a media-centered model of communication and hint at possible ways to meet these.

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    Among important Elleström translations is Chinese is 拉斯·埃斯特洛姆:《媒介的模态:跨媒介研究理论与实践》，陈军、欧荣译，杭州:浙江大学出版社，2023年。 (Elleström 2023b), which includes four important articles: (1) “The modalities of media: a model for understanding intermedial relations,” (2) “The Modalities of media II: an expanded model for understanding intermedial relations,” (3) “Representing the anthropocene: transmediation of narratives and truthfulness from science to feature film,” and (4) “Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity: an interdisciplinary model.”

    Elleström has also been translated into a Brazilian context, mainly with the following: Elleström, Lars. As modalidades das mídias II: um modelo expandido para compreender as relações intermidiais. Trans. supervised and revised by Elaine Barros Indrusiak. Technical revision by Ana Claudia M. Domingos and Camila A. P. de Figueiredo. Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2021, and the collected volume Elleström, Lars. Midialidade: ensaios sobre comunicação, semiótica e intermidialidade. Org. by Ana Munari, et al. Porto Alegre: EdiPUCRS, 2017, which include Elleström, Lars. Coeréncia e veracidade na comunicação: Indicialidade intracomunicacional e extracomunicacional. Trans: Marcelo Pires de Oliveira. Revista Famecos, 2019.

    Elleström, Lars. Identificando, construindo e transpondo as fronteiras das mídias. Trans. Camila Figueiredo. Proceedings of the X Seminário de Pesquisa II Encontro Internacional VII Jornada Intermídia, 2019.

    Jørgen Bruhn’s work, too has been translated to both Brazilian and Chinese, most recently, 乔根·布鲁恩:《叙事文学的跨媒介性:媒介至关重要》，徐长生、欧荣译，杭州:浙江大学出版社，2022年。 (Bruhn 2022).

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    More information on https://intermedial-studies.com/ (accessed 25 Jan 2023).

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Bruhn, J., Schirrmacher, B. (2023). Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and the Legacy of Lars Elleström. In: Bruhn, J., López-Varela, A., de Paiva Vieira, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91263-5_65-1

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