Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser

Book info: Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser (Paperback, 376 pages) – Routledge, 2008. Language: English.

Mind the Screen pays tribute to Thomas Elsaesser, pioneering and leading scholars in the field of film and media studies. The contributions present a close-up of media concepts developed by Elsaesser, providing a looking glass for all types of audio-visual screens, from archaeological pre-cinematic screens to the silver screen, from the TV-set to the video installation and the digital e-screen, and from the city screen to the mobile phone display.The book is divided in three ‘Acts’: Melodrama, Memory, Mind Game; Europe-Hollywood-Europe; Archaeology, Avant-Garde, Archive. Between the Acts Intermezzo’s with a story board of one of Elsaesser’s articles and a scenario about ‘the afterlife of a film scholar’ are included. Editorial Reviews About the Author

Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Previously she has edited Micropolitics of Media Culture. Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari (2001) and Shooting the Family. Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (2005). She is also an editor for Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies .
Jaap Kooijman is Associate Professor in Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam.|Wanda Strauven is Privatdozentin at the Goethe University Frankfurt.