Abstract
In her article "An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues" Ipshita Chanda discusses the film text of Nina Paley's 2008 animation film, a culturally reconceptualized version of Válmíki's Sanskrit epic Rámáyana. Chanda discusses the film as an intermedial retextualization of the Rámáyana in the film where media boundaries and genres are crossed in "textual," audio, and visual media. The basic premise from which Chanda proceeds is that the condition of intermediality in film is produced by a "conceptual fusion" of different media which, in turn, are analyzed using theories of reception and contact between different media across time, space, and cultures with regard to "source" text and "received" text.
Recommended Citation
Chanda, Ipshita.
"An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
13.3
(2011):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1798>
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