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Title:The mind-game film
distributed agency, time travel, and productive pathology
From: Thomas Elsaesser ; edited by Warren Buckland, Dana Polan, and Seung-hoon Jeong
Person: Elsaesser, Thomas
1943-2019
Verfasser
aut
Buckland, Warren
Polan, Dana B.
Jeong, Seung-hoon
1966-
1953-
Main Author: Elsaesser, Thomas 1943-2019 (Author)
Other Authors: Buckland, Warren 1966- (Editor), Polan, Dana B. 1953- (Editor), Jeong, Seung-hoon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Routledge 2021
Series:Film studies
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Online Access:https://www.doi.org/10.4324/9780203879559
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203879559
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203879559
Summary: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-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema thrives today. He demonstrates how the ‘Persistence of Hollywood’ continues as it has adapted to include new twists and turns, as well as revisions of past concerns, as film moves through the 21st century. Through examples such as Minority Report, Mulholland Drive, Source Code, and Back to the Future, Elsaesser explores how mind-game films challenge us and play games with our perception of reality, creating skepticism and (self-) doubt. He also highlights the mind-game film's tendency to intervene in a complex fashion in the political moment by questioning the dominant power’s intent to program both body and mind alike. Prescient and compelling, The Mind-Game Film will appeal to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of media studies, film studies, philosophy, and politics.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 322 Seiten)
ISBN:9780203879559
DOI:10.4324/9780203879559

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