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

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.

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Description 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
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.
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.
Language English.
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.
Film criticism
Mass media criticism
Indexed Term Motion pictures History of Amsterdam Film Geschiedenis van Amsterdam
Added Author Kooijman, Jaap.
Pisters, Patricia.
Strauven, Wanda.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Mind the screen. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008 9789089640253 (DLC) 2008464759 (OCoLC)237890122
ISBN 9789048506460 (electronic bk.)
9048506468 (electronic bk.)
9781282387348 (online)
1282387340 (online)
9786612387340
6612387343
9789089640253
9089640258
Standard No. AU@ 000051333368
DEBBG BV043169058
DEBBG BV044140648
DEBSZ 396319777
DEBSZ 421936649
GBVCP 1003610218
NZ1 13862121
NZ1 16049194

 
    
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