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Devereaux, Michelle (2020) Thomas Elsaesser (2019) European Cinema and Continental Philosophy : film as thought experiment. Film-Philosophy, 24 (3). pp. 366-370. doi:10.3366/film.2020.0150 ISSN 1466-4615.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2020.0150
Abstract
“[T]here is never a good moment to try and say something definitive, least of all about ‘Europe’ or about ‘cinema,’” writes Thomas Elsaesser in the acknowledgments to what would become his final book (p. vii). True to form, however, the pioneering film theorist and historian seemingly can't resist the urge to accept such a challenge. In European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment, Elsaesser, who died in December 2019 at the age of 76, gamely takes on debates regarding film as philosophy, emerging ontologies of digital and ‘post-cinema’, the politics and ethics of globalisation and multiculturalism, auteurism in twenty first century European cinema, and the very idea of contemporary Europe itself. In myriad ways, then, the book is a fitting coda to a venerable career that has explored film from nearly every conceivable theoretical, aesthetic, and socio-political angle. What began with a focus on Weimar cinema and Hollywood melodrama grew to include everything from new media studies to media archaeology to theories of embodiment and spectatorship, with Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (Elsaesser and Hagener 2007) becoming as crucial a text to the latter as Elsaesser's writings on Fassbinder and Sirk are to the study of New German Cinema and mid-century Hollywood “weepies”.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Film-Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1466-4615 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 366-370 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.3366/film.2020.0150 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 March 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 March 2023 |
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