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Mind the screen : media concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser / edited by Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Stauven.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kooijman, Jaap.
- Film criticism.
- Mass media criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mind the Screen pays tribute to Thomas Elsaesser, pioneering and leading scholars in the field of film and media studies. The contributions present a close-up of media concepts developed by Elsaesser, providing a looking glass for all types of audio-visual screens, from archaeological pre-cinematic screens to the silver screen, from the TV-set to the video installation and the digital e-screen, and from the city screen to the mobile phone display. The book is divided in three 'Acts': Melodrama, Memory, Mind Game; Europe-Hollywood-Europe; Archaeology, Avant-Garde, Archive. Between the Acts Inte
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; A Looking Glass for Old and New Screens; ACT I: Melodrama, Memory, Mind Game; Cinephilia in Transition; Theorizing Melodrama; Of Surfaces and Depths; Failed Tragedy and Traumatic Love in IngmarBergman's Shame; Mediated Memories; Running on Failure; Into the Mind and Out to the World; A Critical Mind; Intermezzo: Scholars, Dreams, and Memory Tapes; ACT II: Europe-Hollywood-Europe; The Cheetah of Cinema; Bear Life; Constitutive Contingencies; Lili and Rachel; Amsterdamned Global Village; Soundtracks of Double Occupancy; Hollywood Face to Face with the World
- To Be or Not to Be Post-ClassicalBumper Stories; Intermezzo "Where Were You When ...?" or "I Phone,Therefore I Am"; ACT III: Archaeology, Avant-Garde, Archive; Reflections in a Laserdisc; S/M; Consumer Technology after Surveillance Theory; Migratory Terrorism; The Echo Chamber of History; Displacing the Colonial Archive; Found Footage, Performance, Reenactment; Digital Convergence Ten Years Later; Notes on Contributors; Key Publications by Thomas Elsaesser
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- ISBN:
- 9786612387340
- 9781282387348
- 1282387340
- 9789048506460
- 9048506468
- OCLC:
- 475694421
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5117/9789089640253
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