Evolution of Thomas Elsaesser’s Concept of the ‘Mind-Game’ Film: A Personal Assessment
Evolution of Thomas Elsaesser’s Concept of the ‘Mind-Game’ Film: A Personal Assessment
Author(s): Warren BucklandSubject(s): Psychology, Higher Education , History of Education, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, History of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Gdański
Keywords: Thomas Elsaesser; cinematography; mind-game films; film theory; 1990s; University of Amsterdam;
Summary/Abstract: I worked with Thomas Elsaesser for over three decades on numerous projects. Our intellectual collaboration began in the early 1990s, soon after I completed my Ph.D. thesis (‘Filmic Meaning: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface’) under his supervision. Thomas invited me to co-teach on the MA Film Theory class he had just established at the University of Amsterdam. I travelled regularly from the UK to Amsterdam in the 1990s, where I gave presentations on mise-en-scène theory, statistical style analysis, narration, and videogame logic. We collaborated on writing up our separate MA seminar notes as a book.
Journal: Panoptikum
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 22 (29)
- Page Range: 38-42
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English