An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues

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 Valmiki's Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Chanda discusses the film as an intermedial retextualization of the Ramayana 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. Ipshita Chanda, An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues page 2 of 9 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.3 (2011): Thematic issue New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice. Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, Asuncion Lopez-Varela, Haun Saussy, and Jan Mieszkowski