The mind-game film : distributed agency, time travel and productive pathology / Thomas Elsaesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elsässer, T. (Thomas), author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychological games in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

History.

United States.

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

On mind-game films as tipping points: the challenges of cinema in the new century

Too late, too soon: body, time and agency

The mind-game film

Time travel films: an ethics of redemption, rescue and regret

The new normal

trauma as successfully failed communication (Nurse Betty / 2000)

Saving Private Ryan: retrospection, survivors' guilt and affective memory

Philip K. Dick, the mind-game film, retroactive causality

Actions have consequences: logics of mind-game film in David Lynch's Los Angeles-trilogy

Zero Dark Thirty: gene hybridization as (parapractic) interference

Cinema and games: contingency as our new causality

Contingency, causality, complexity: distributed agency in the mind-game film

The history of the present as paranoid mind-game.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 03, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Elsässer, T. Mind-game film

ISBN:

9780203879559

0203879554

9781135884055

1135884056

9781135884048

1135884048

9781135884000

1135884005

Publisher Number:

40030501012

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.