Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.

Description:

1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.

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ISBN:

9789048506460 (electronic bk.)
9048506468 (electronic bk.)
9781282387348 (online)
1282387340 (online)
9786612387340
6612387343
9789089640253
9089640258

Subject:

Film criticism.
Mass media criticism.
Critique cinématographique.
Médias Évaluation.
The arts.
Film, TV and radio.
Humanities.
History.
PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video General.
Motion pictures History of Amsterdam Film Geschiedenis van Amsterdam

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections

Host item:

Books at JSTOR: Open Access
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

Added entries:

Kooijman, Jaap.
Pisters, Patricia.
Strauven, Wanda.