Biography
Guido Kirsten teaches film and media studies. His research interests include: aesthetics of moving images, representations of social class, and the history of film theory. He is the author of Filmischer Realismus (2013) and co-editor of Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema (2018) and Precarity in European Film (2022).
“Far more than delivering a conscientious genealogy of a nearly mystical critical term, Guido Kerstin has looked through the lens of “decoupage” to throw film historiography into relief. Suddenly new relationships appear among Epstein, Eisenstein, Bazin, Burch, Metz, etc, and tired distinctions between styles and periods stand out sharply against this shifting concept. Fastidiously researched and confidently exfoliated, this single specific term turns out to illuminate a panoply of key issues in film poetics and aesthetics, doing so more acutely than thick handbooks and textbooks on the art.” -- Dudley Andrew, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, Yale University, USA.
