Film Culture in Transition
About the Book Series
Film Culture in Transition is committed to a diverse range of approaches and to stimulating cutting-edge debates on the complex interdependence of cinema, other media and screen culture at large. While putting the emphasis on current work in film theory and media history, the series also feature studies on new forms of authorship, image politics and media art. With a strong tradition in European and North American cinema, we are welcoming innovative book projects on the diversity of film cultures in a global perspective.
Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures
1st Edition
By Bo Florin, Patrick Vonderau, Yvonne Zimmermann
July 01, 2021
Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ...
Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium
1st Edition
By Steve Choe
June 05, 2018
South Korea is home to one of the most vibrant film industries in the world today, producing movies for a strong domestic market that are also drawing the attention of audiences worldwide. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of some of the most well-known and incendiary South Korean films ...
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema
1st Edition
By Thomas Elsaesser
October 03, 2016
Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinema's current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers, while also ...
Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity
1st Edition
By Michael Cowan
October 05, 2015
A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent era's most celebrated montage films, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City. Yet even as he was making experimental films, Ruttmann had a day job. He worked ...
Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Erika Balsom
February 12, 2013
Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging study takes stock of ...
Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Tortajada, François van den Albera
May 06, 2010
This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between the voice and the use of the body in contemporary cinema. The contributors discuss, among aothers, the...
Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Vonderau, Vinzenz Hediger
June 10, 2009
The history of industrial films – an orphan genre of twentieth-century cinema composed of government-produced and industrially sponsored movies that sought to achieve the goals of their sponsors, rather than the creative artists involved –seems to have left no trace in filmic cultural discourse. At...
The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
1st Edition
Edited
By Wanda Strauven
October 09, 2006
What have Lumière in common with Wachowski? More than one hundred years separate these two pairs of brothers who astonished, quite similarly, the film spectator of their respective time with special effects of movement: a train rushing into the audience and a bullet flying in slow motion. Do they ...
European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood
1st Edition
By Thomas Elsaesser
June 22, 2005
In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe's national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different ...
The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
1st Edition
By Alexander Horwath, Noel King, Thomas Elsaesser
January 19, 2004
The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the ...