Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus of film and television studies at the university of amsterdam and since 2005 visiting professor at yale university. Thomas elsaesser, university of amsterdam, reguliersgracht 20, amsterdam, nl1017, the netherlands. Unlike the many other, more theoretical publications about his work, this book operates with still images beyond an illustrative or documentary purpose. Tributes to thomas elsaesser the current the criterion.
We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Allegories of the artist, thomas elsaesser, new german. Filmmaker, artist, media theorist 35 matter of a single term that forms a chain or a semantic cluster the v erbund network and feedback loop in zwischen zwei kriegen, or. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. An introduction, senses of cinema 21 july 2002 rainer werner fassbinder. The cultural mode of production, thomas elsaesser, new german cinema a history new brunswick. In the summer of 1976, i spent time in berlin researching a book on new german cinema, interviewing as many filmmakers as i could, but also critics. Thomas elsaesser, introduccion harun farocki, otre parte no 2 buenos aires 4852. Discover book depositorys huge selection of thomas elsaesser books online. Working on the sightlines amsterdam university press, 2004. Rutgers university press, 1989, 4073 the author in the film.
Working on the sightlines amsterdam university press, 2004 379 pp. Thomas elsaesser in transition film culture film farocki harun working on the sightlines edited by harun farocki thomas elsaesser ed. Harun farocki, written trailers, in harun farocki, ed. Unlike other, more theoretical publications on his work, diagramsdiagrams. Only by turning itself into a form of writing in the broadest possible sense, can film preserve itself as a form of intelligence, at least until the arrival of a new machine, in time for a different wheatfield of dreams or battle. He is the grandson of the renowned german architect martin elsaesser, one of the subjects of the sun island, and coeditor of martin elsaesser schriften zurich. If i remember right, i had an introduction through one of his. For example, world war ii with quotes will give more precise results than world war ii without quotes. Among his recent books are the persistence of hollywood new york. Thomas elsaesser, political filmmaking after brecht. Vietnam, thomas elsaesser wrote that harun farocki, in treating.
For italian postwar directors such as luchino visconti, francesco rosi, bernardo. He was the writer and director of the sun island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect martin elsaesser. Division of cinema and media studies speaker series. For more than thirty years farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, film essayist. Buy german cinema terror and trauma 1 by elsaesser, thomas isbn. He has also author of five books and numerous essays on almost all aspects of german cinema, as well as books on rainer werner fassbinder and harun farocki. Farocki, for example thomas elsaesser brecht and brechtian cinema harun filmmakers, especially in europe, who profess they owe something to brecht are numerous, but his legacy has been appropriated in very different ways. Wildcard searching if you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol called a wildcard for one or more letters. Thomas elsaessers most popular book is film theory. German cinema terror and trauma by thomas elsaesser, 9780415709279, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Harun farocki and andrei ujica discuss the visual material of the 1989 romanian revolution they used for videogramme einer revolution 1992 in a round table discussion with andrei ple.
Over the thirtyplus years of his career, farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun farocki was once described by thomas elsaesser as probably germanys bestknown important filmmaker, after labouring for years as germanys bestknown unknown filmmaker. This publication attempts to map the visual approach of one of germanys foremost documentary filmmakers, harun farocki born 1944. Metropolis, including the muchcited new german cinema a history, as well as a monograph on rainer werner fassbinder, a study on the afterlife of the nazi era in german postwar film, an anthology on the work of harun farocki and the bfi companion.
Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus at the faculty of media and culture at the university of amsterdam and has been a guest professor at columbia university, new york, since 20. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of konrad wolf, alexander kluge, rainer werner fassbinder, herbert achterbusch and harun farocki, as well as films made in the new century, elsaesser tracks the different ways the holocaust is present in german cinema from the 1950s onwards, even when it is absent, or referenced in oblique. Images from ten films by maren grimm, harun farocki, thomas elsaesser. Working the sightlines film culture in transition 9789053566350. Harun farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast. A look ahead, film language seoul, korea 2003, 1185. Text by griselda pollock, hito steyerl, anna altman, manuela ammer, julieta aranda, marius babias, camila bechelany, jochen becker, franco bifo berardi, fred camper, lauren cornell, t. Serious games, curated by henriette huldisch, was on exhibition at the hamburger bahnhof, berlin, 6 february 2014 18 january 2015.
S ince friday, when news of the sudden and entirely unexpected death of thomas elsaesser was still too fresh to process, weve seen a fair number of. Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer. Harun farocki, working on the sightlines by forum lenteng. French, italian, czech, hebrew, hungarian, korean, chinese, japanese and lithuanian. Harun farocki the future of art and work in the age of vision machines. Phrase searching you can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. That is a long while ago, and it confirms that harun farocki has been around.
Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus of cinema studies at. Thomas elsaesser questions conventional readings which link these genres to romanticism and expressionism, and offers new approaches to analysing the function of national cinema in an advanced culture industry and in a germany constantly reinventing itself both geographically and politically. Raised in minas gerais she started to study psychology and cinematography in belo horizonte. Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus at the department of media and culture of the university of amsterdam. He currently holds a senior research position at the free university berlin. For more than thirty years farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, filmessayist. The project will be started off by birgit hein filmmaker and author, berlin, vicepresident of the visual arts section at the berlin academy of arts, thomas elsaesser film scholar and author, amsterdam new york, professor of film and television, university of amsterdam, harun farocki filmmaker and author, berlin, professor emeritus of. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Harun farocki, for example, in working on the sightlines, ed. The first englishlanguage book on germanys bestknown important filmmaker.
Since 20 he is also visiting professor at columbia university. Jan verwoert, christa blumlinger, dietrich leder, benedikt reichenbach. In the summer of 1976, i spent time in berlin researching a book on new german. Harun farocki series 3 combining, contrasting, overlapping.
Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Thomas elsaesser has 52 books on goodreads with 2085 ratings. Thomas elsaesser s most popular book is film theory. Editorthomas elsaesser get textbooks new textbooks. He is the author of five books and numerous essays on almost all aspects of german cinema, as well as books on rainer werner fassbinder and harun farocki. Al meer dan dertig jaar is harun farocki werkzaam als filmmaker, documentairemaker, filmessayist. Harun farocki, controlling observation, originally published in jungle world, no. Thomas elsaesser 22 june 1943 4 december 2019 was a german film historian and professor of film and television studies at the university of amsterdam. The last great american picture show1st edition new hollywood cinema in the 1970s amsterdam university press film culture in transition.
The city of broken windows edited with text by carolyn christovbakargiev, marianna vecellio. Alex alberro interviews thomas elsaesser, new york artists space, 2014. With a penetrating and critical intelligence farocki probes ambiguities as well as deceptions, revealing both actions taken and the way actions are predetermined by social practices. Harun farockis 1990 film leben brd how to live in the federal republic of germany is a montage assembled from short scenes taken from 32 instructional and training classes, and therapy and test sessions from across the german federal republic. I knew farocki as a critic, from the articles he wrote for filmkritik, but had not seen any of his films. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Countering the death of cinema debate, film history as media archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinemas current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers, while. I also edited and coedited some twelve volumes on early cinema, quality television, digital cinema, harun farocki, new hollywood cinema.
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