Mind the screen : : media concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser / / edited by Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Stauven.

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...

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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (375 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of 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