Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses
by Thomas Elsaesser, Malte Hagener (Author)
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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 spectator's mind, body and senses. Using seven distinctive configurations of spectator and screen show more that move progressively from 'exterior' to 'interior' relationships, the authors retrace the most important stages of film theory from its beginnings to the present--from neo-realist and modernist theories to psychoanalytic, 'apparatus,' phenomenological and cognitivist theories, and including recent cross-overs with philosophy and neurology. This new and updated edition of Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses has been extensively revised and rewritten throughout, incorporating discussion of contemporary films like Her and Gravity, and including a greatly expanded final chapter, which brings film theory fully into the digital age. show lessTags
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Thomas Elsaesser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and since 2013 Visiting Professor at Columbia University. USA. European Cinema and Continental Philosophy further develops Elsaesser's approach to national and auteur cinema begun with Fassbinder's Germany: History Identity Subject (1996), continued with show more European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (2005) and given a theoretical turn in Film Theory: An introduction through the Senses (2010). show less
Malte Hagener is Professor of Media Studies at Philipps Universitt Marburg. He is the author of Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-Garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 (Amsterdam UP 2007) and with Thomas Elsaesser of Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge 2010).
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- Original title
- Filmtheorie : Zur Einführung
- Original publication date
- 2007
- Related movies*
- Rear Window (1954 | tt0047396), Sentieri Selvaggi, Persona, Blade Runner, Crash, Singing' in the Rain, Se mi lasci ti cancello, Toy Story (1954 | IMDb)
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
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- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
- LCC
- PN1994 .E53 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Paper, Ebook
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