#thomas elsaesser

[rrrauschen]

Thomas Elsaesser & Malte Hagener, {2015} The Face And The Mirror

[grupaok]

RIP Thomas Elsaesser, the great critic and historian of European cinema

The image is the cover of his excellent 1989 book New German Cinema

We especially appreciated his writing on Fassbinder and Syberberg

The photograph is of Solveig Dommartin in Wenders’ Wings of Desire

[atlxolotl]

The close-up and the face in the films of Ingmar Bergman

This video essay, drawn from chapter 3 (”Cinema as Mirror: The Face and Close-Up”) of Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener’s “Film Theory: an Introduction Through the Sense” (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2015), investigates elements of film theory that highlight the close-up and the face in the films of Ingmar Bergman. Premissed as the book is on the assumption that great films ‘think’ their own conditions of possibility, the video essay gives a meta-cinematic dimension to a filmmaker’s apparently personal themes and private obsessions.

[rrrauschen]

thomas elsaesser, {2014} the ethics of appropriation: found footage between archive and internet

[peasantwomenofryazan1927]

At what point, for what reasons, was the awareness of colour suppressed? And we really must talk about it being suppressed. It is a historical-ideological question and has a lot to do with creating a specific cultural place for film, moving it upmarket in fact.

Thomas Elsaesser, quoted in Disorderly Order: Colous in Silent Film: The 1995 Amsterdam Workshop, ed. Daan Hertogs

[antoniopasolini]

This video essay, drawn from chapter 3 ('Cinema as Mirror: The Face and Close-Up'') of Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener's 'Film Theory: an Introduction Through the Sense' (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2015), investigates elements of film theory that highlight the close-up and the face in the films of Ingmar Bergman. Premissed as the book is on the assumption that great films 'think' their own conditions of possibility, the video essay gives a meta-cinematic dimension to a filmmaker's apparently personal themes and private obsessions.

[abbymories]

By BY RICHARD SANDOMIR from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/36OiNoE

[abbymories]

By BY RICHARD SANDOMIR from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/36OiNoE