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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140023203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612387340

9781282387348

1282387340

9789048506460

9048506468

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PistersPatricia

StrauvenWanda

Disciplina

302.2343

Soggetti

Film criticism

Mass media criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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