Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for cinema's current status as a new epistemological object of interest to philosophe…
Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, this book presents a robust overall argument for cinema's current status as a new epistemological object of interest to philosophers, while also ex…
Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for cinema's current status as a new epistemological object of interest to philosophe…
"Stanley Cavell, just recently deceased, was, by many accounts America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film seriously as a subject for philosophical criticism, he h…
Assesses the influence and legacy of Stanley Kubrick's films and thought in 21st century cinema and culture
"This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades. In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function Elsaesser maps the industrial-instit…
"This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades. In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function Elsaesser maps the industrial-instit…