Filmtheorie zur Einführung

How does the film relate to the viewer's body? Along this guiding question, Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener introduce film theory and examine both classical and contemporary authors, as well as canonical and lesser-known texts on film theory. From the model of cinema as a window, which creates a distanced view of the film events for the viewer, they extend the discussion to the concept of "the brain as a screen." The fourth edition has been supplemented with an afterword that outlines the continuation of these models in light of the rapid development of digital media.