The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology

ISBN-13: 9780415968126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 322 str.

T. Elsaesser;Elsaesser Thoma

Opis

The woman s picture, the male trauma narrative, and mind-game films three ways that American cinema tests the limits: of what victims can suffer, what the body can bear, and what the mind can understand. Usually considered both marginal and excessive, these genres, modes, or tendencies in contemporary Hollywood have more in common than might at first appear. They tell us much about the way America engages in dialogue with its own divided nature and nation, demonstrated across its most cherished and characteristic of art forms: the movies."

Spis treści

Silvia Vega-Llona, "Prologue: Thomas Elsaesser and The Mind-Game Film" Warren Buckland, "The Mind-Game Film: Provenance of a Concept" Dana Polan, "Minding Hollywood" Seung-hoon Jeong, "Politicizing the Mind-Game Film" 1. On Mind-Game Films as Tipping Points: The Challenges of Cinema in the New Century 2. Too Late, Too Soon: Body, Time, and Agency 3. The Mind-Game Film 4. Time Travel Films: An Ethics of Redemption, Rescue, and Regret 5. The New Normal – Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication (NURSE BETTY 2000) 6. Saving Private Ryan 7. Philip K Dick, the Mind-Game film, and Retroactive Causality 8. Actions Have Consequences: Logics of the Mind-Game Film in David Lynch’s Los Angeles Trilogy 9. Zero Dark Thirty: Genre Hybridization as (Parapractic) Interference 10. Cinema and Games: Contingency as Our New Causality 11. Contingency, Causality, Complexity: Distributed Agency in the Mind-Game Film 12. The History of the Present as Paranoid Mind-Game

O autorze

Thomas Elsaesser was Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since 2013 until his passing in December 2019 he was Visiting Professor at Columbia University, USA, and from 2006 to 2012 he was Visiting Professor at Yale University, USA. Among his books as author are European Cinema and Continental Philosophy (2019), Film History as Media Archeology (2016), The Persistence of Hollywood (2012), Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (2010, 2015) co-authored with Malte Hagener, European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (2005), Weimar Cinema and After (2000), Fassbinder’s Germany: History, Identity, Subject (1996), and New German Cinema (1989).