2nd Edition
Film Theory An Introduction through the Senses
Introduction: Film Theory, Cinema, the Body and the Senses 1. Cinema as Window and Frame 2. Cinema as Door – Screen and Threshold 3. Cinema as Mirror – Face and Close-Up 4. Cinema as Eye – Look and Gaze 5. Cinema as Skin – Body and Touch 6. Cinema as Ear – Acoustic and Space 7. Cinema as Brain – Mind and Body 8. Digital Cinema and Film Theory – Challenge or Confirmation?
Biography
Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam and since 2012 Visiting Professor at Columbia University. His recent books include: Weimar Cinema and After (Routledge, 2000); Metropolis (BFI, 2000); Studying Contemporary American Film (Hodder, 2002, with Warren Buckland); European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (Amsterdam University Press, 2005); The Persistence of Hollywood (Routledge, 2012); and German Cinema – Terror and Trauma (Routledge, 2013).
Malte Hagener is Professor of media studies at Marburg University. He has written Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 (Amsterdam University Press, 2008) and edited many volumes, including The Emergence of Film Culture (Berghahn, 2014).
