Das Kino der abjekten Affekte

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  • Thomas Elsaesser

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https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2019.78

Abstract

“Genre“ und „Affekt“ zusammenzudenken heißt auch, jenseits klassischer Genrezuschreibungen und paradigmatischer Emotionen neue Kategorien zu erschließen. Ausgehend vom Affekt des “Abjekten” beschreibt dieser Beitrag das europäische Autorenkino der Gegenwart als ein Genre des „Gedankenexperiments“: Es geht um Filme, die von einem Leben am Rande der Gesellschaft aus, das Leben und die Gesellschaft neu denken. Aus einer solchen Perspektive wird dieses Kino in seinen globalen, politischen und filmhistorischen Verflechtungen noch einmal anders greifbar.

Author Biography

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser is professor emeritus in film and television studies at the University of Amsterdam, and since 2013 teaches part-time at Columbia University, New York. He gained his PhD in 1971 at the University of Sussex and subsequently taught for nearly 20 years at the University of East Anglia, where he co-founded one of the first Film Studies departments in the United Kingdom. Appointed professor in Amsterdam in 1991, he founded (and chaired until 2001) the Department of Film and Television Studies – the first in the Netherlands.

His fields of expertise include film theory and film history, genre theory, Hollywood cinema, European cinema d’auteur, media archeology and the theory of new media.

Elsaesser’s books and essays have been translated into some twenty languages. Among his publications in German are Das Weimarer Kino: aufgeklärt und doppelbödig (Berlin, 1999), Metropolis (Hamburg, 2001), Filmgeschichte und frühes Kino. Archäologie eines Medienwandels (München, 2002), Hollywood heute. Geschichte, Gender und Nation im postklassischen Kino (Berlin, 2009), Terror und Trauma. Zur Gewalt des Vergangenen in der BRD (Berlin, 2007), Filmtheorie zur Einführung (mit Malte Hagener, Hamburg, 2008),  Körper, Tod und Technik - Metamorphosen des Kriegsfilms (mit Michael Wedel, Paderborn, 2016). Elsaesser is also the general editor of the series Film Culture in Transition, published by Amsterdam University Press. Its 50th volume was Elsaesser’s Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema (Amsterdam, 2016). 

Genre and Affect

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Published

2019-05-25

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Elsaesser, T. (2019). Das Kino der abjekten Affekte. Mediaesthetics – Journal of Poetics of Audiovisual Images, (3). https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2019.78

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No. 3 (2019): Genre & Affect

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