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  • The Last Great American Picture Show

    New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s

    by Alexander Horwath, Noel King, Thomas Elsaesser ...
    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Film History as Media Archaeology

    Tracking Digital Cinema

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinema's current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers, while also examining the presence of moving images in the museum and art spaces as a challenge for art history. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • European Cinema

    Face to Face with Hollywood

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe's national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different debates and presents a broader framework for understanding the forces at work since the 1960s. These ... Read more

    $105.00 USD

  • The Mind-Game Film

    Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser’s intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function, Elsaesser maps the industrial-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • German Cinema - Terror and Trauma

    Cultural Memory Since 1945

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    In German Cinema – Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management' that includes not ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Film Criticism in the Digital Age

    by Mattias Frey, Cecilia Sayad, Greg Taylor, Daniel McNeil, Giacomo Manzoli, Paolo Noto, Maria San Filippo, Noah Tsika, Anne Hurault-Paupe0, Outi Hakola1, Thomas Elsaesser2, Jasmina Kallay3, Armond White4, Nick James5 ...
    Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Metropolis

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months'filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for directorFritz Lang's increasingly extravagant ambitions. Lang, inspired by the skyline ofNew York, created a whole new vision of cities. One of the greatest works ofscience fiction, the film also tells human stories about love and family.Thomas Elsaesser ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Early Cinema

    Space, Frame, Narrative

    In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people. Only recently have film scholars and historians begun to study these early years of cinema in their own right and not simply as first steps towards the classical narrative cinema we ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • European Cinema and Continental Philosophy

    Film As Thought Experiment

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    Series series Thinking Cinema
    Winner of the Limina Award 2021This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Film Theory

    An Introduction through the Senses

    by Thomas Elsaesser, Malte Hagener ...
    What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition. Every kind of cinema (and every film theory) first imagines an ideal spectator, and then maps certain dynamic interactions between the screen and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Weimar Cinema and After

    Germany's Historical Imaginary

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Persistence of Hollywood

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    While Hollywood’s success – its persistence – has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s, Thomas Elsaesser’s research has spearheaded the study of Hollywood, beginning with his classic essays on auteurism and cinephilia, focused around a director’s themes and style, up to his analysis of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD