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Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses

Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses

Thomas Elsaesser

This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition.
Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser

Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser

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Mind the Screen pays tribute to the work of the pioneering European film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, author of several volumes on media studies and cinema culture.
Metropolis

Metropolis

Thomas Elsaesser

In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Elsaesser discusses the impact of the 27 minutes of 'lost' footage discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008, and incorporated in ...
German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945

German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945

Thomas Elsaesser

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 ...
Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

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For a brief appraisal of the former collection, see Johannes von Moltke, “Kluge Total,” Germanic Review 83.1 (Winter 2008): 60–68. 17 Thomas Elsaesser, “ Marathon Man,” Film Comment 44.3 (May-Jun. 2008): 52–64; here 58. 18 Sebald , On ...
Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

Thomas Elsaesser

This book answers this question by taking an innovative approach to writing about individual movies: in each of the main chapters the authors examine the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film (e.g. auteurism, narratology, ...
The Persistence of Hollywood

The Persistence of Hollywood

Thomas Elsaesser

The book also presents a history of the different critical-theoretical paradigms central to film studies in its analysis of Hollywood, from auteurism and cinephilia to textual analysis, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and post-industrial analysis.
Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary

Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary

Thomas Elsaesser

The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, which having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated nation, still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving ...
European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood

European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood

Thomas Elsaesser

'European Cinema in Crisis' examines the conflicting terminologies that have dominated the discussion of the future of European film-making.
The BFI companion to German cinema

The BFI companion to German cinema

Thomas Elsaesser

The BFI Companion to German Cinema is a concise and authoritative source of reference.
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

Christopher J. Einolf

George Thomas to John Thomas, 25 January 1841 ,Thomas Papers,VHS. 25. Thomas to Thomas, 25 January 1841. 26. George Thomas to C. P. Kingsbury, 25 July 1841.This letter is no longer extant, but is printed in Coppee, Thomas, 7—9.
Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject

Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject

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Approaching the work from different thematic and analytical perspectives, Elsaesser offers both an overview and a number of detailed readings of crucial films, while also providing a European context for Fassbinder's own coming to terms ...
Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Professor Stewart R Craggs

A Source Book Professor Stewart R Craggs. Thomas, Dylan, 159 Thomas, Gwion , 136, 190 Thomas, Gwn, 72 Thomas, Gwyn, 179, 185, 187, 197 Thomas, Hugh, 174 Thomas, Kelvin, 118, 131 Thomas, Mansel, 41, 44, 84 Thomas, Martin, 170 ...
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

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A Thomas More source book

A Thomas More source book

Sir Thomas More (Saint)

"A Thomas More Sourcebook" brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More to reflect his views on education, politics, church-state relations, love, and friendship.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

Thomas Jefferson

1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815 Thomas Jefferson J. Jefferson Looney ... OxfordshireOX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826 The papers of Thomas Jefferson .
Aeronautics

Aeronautics

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William Geoffrey Moore. George Hancock Reid. Thomas Yaughan Lister. Thomas Francis Netterville Gerrard. Oswald Noel Walmesley. James Edward Baker Maclean. John Daniel Newberry. Thomas Hinshelwood. t rank Thomas Digby.
Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Rev. W. Awdry

These three stories from the latest release are filled with the same gentle humor and familiar friends as all of the very popular Thomas Picturebacks.First, Thomas is taking milk to the dairy to make ice cream for a big party, and if he ...
The Salvage

The Salvage

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas, Charles Kikuchi, James Minoru Sakoda. procedure was not correct, so it had to be stopped. This action was instigated by Dr. [X], an Issei who had resided in this country for many years. He claimed that it was ...
The Poems of Dylan Thomas

The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

This new, revised edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971.
Memoirs of the life and ministry of the late Rev. Thomas ...

Memoirs of the life and ministry of the late Rev. Thomas ...

Thomas Raffles

Thomas Raffles. endure. You know poor White, of Chester, has received the end of his faith — the salvation of his soul; I delivered the oration over his ... Wishing much to see you, I remain, dear Sir, "Affectionately your's, "Thomas Spencer.
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The British Tariff ...

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Thomas' 123 Book (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas' 123 Book (Thomas & Friends)

Rev. W. Awdry

This companion to the perennial classic Thomas' ABC Book teaches numbers to train-obsessed little boys and girls ages 3-7 as only Thomas & Friends can. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Congressional Serial Set

Congressional Serial Set

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The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

Amy Thomas

A Novel of Sherlock Holmes Amy Thomas ... 3GX www.mxpublishing.com Digital edition converted and distributed in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited www. andrewsuk.com © Copyright 2013 Amy Thomas The right of Amy Thomas to be identified ...
Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims ...

Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims ...

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American Foreign Relations, Volume 1: To 1920

American Foreign Relations, Volume 1: To 1920

Thomas Paterson

Thomas Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, Robert Brigham, Michael Donoghue, Kenneth Hagan ... Jr., Barbara Keys, Lorraine Lees, Thomas Lairson, Lester Langley, Jane Lee, Thomas M. Leonard, Li Yan, Terrence J. Lindell, Kyle Longley, Florencia ...
American Foreign Relations: A History, Volume 1: To 1920

American Foreign Relations: A History, Volume 1: To 1920

Thomas Paterson

Thomas Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, Shane J. Maddock, Deborah Kisatsky, Kenneth Hagan ... Mary Kanable, Burton Kaufman, Melville T. Kennedy, Jr., Thomas Lairson, Lester Langley, Jane Lee, Thomas M. Leonard, Li Yan, Terrence J. Lindell, ...

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