Thomas Elsaesser

TL;DR: 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 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people as discussed by the authors, and only recently have film scholars and historians begun to study these early years of cinema in their own right and not simply as first steps towards the classical narrative cinema we now associate with Hollywood.

TL;DR: In this paper, the body and the senses are refigured in the context of digital cinema, and the new body norm is defined: face or hand or face or both.

TL;DR: In Search of the Spectator I: From Oberhausen to Genre Films? as discussed by the authors, the Autorenfilm and the In Search of Spectator II: Cinema of Experience.

TL;DR: In this article, film theory, methods and analysis classical/post-classical narrative (Die Hard) mise en scene criticism and statsitical style analysis (The English Patient) from thematic criticism to deconstructive analysis (Chinatown) S/Z, the "readerly" film, and video game logic (The Fifth Element) cognitive theories of narration (Lost Highway) realism in the photographic and digital image (Jurassic Park and The Lost World) Oedipal narratives and post-Oedipal (Back to the Future) feminism, Fou