This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesserâs intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.
Die Filmtheorien, die seit der Entstehung des Kinos am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelt wurden, lassen sich als eine Reihe von Metaphern, Konzepten und Begriffsfeldern verstehen, die sich auf den Körper des Zuschauers und dessen taktilen, epistem...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a closer understanding of Fassbinder&a...
A collection of essays by the acclaimed film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, written between 1968 and 2005, tracks the crisis of contemporary European cinema, faced by the Hollywood giant on the one hand, and the collapsing national cinema industries on the...
German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the âgolden agesâ of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandoraâs Box and The...