The Mind-Game Film
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The Mind-Game Film

Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology

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The Mind-Game Film

Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology

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About This Book

This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.

In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function, Elsaesser maps the industrial-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema thrives today. He demonstrates how the 'Persistence of Hollywood' continues as it has adapted to include new twists and turns, as well as revisions of past concerns, as film moves through the 21st century. Through examples such as Minority Report, Mulholland Drive, Source Code, and Back to the Future, Elsaesser explores how mind-game films challenge us and play games with our perception of reality, creating skepticism and (self-) doubt. He also highlights the mind-game film's tendency to intervene in a complex fashion in the political moment by questioning the dominant power's intent to program both body and mind alike.

Prescient and compelling, The Mind-Game Film will appeal to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of media studies, film studies, philosophy, and politics.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781135884048
Edition
1
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Prologue: Thomas Elsaesser and The Mind-Game Film
  8. The Mind-Game Film: Provenance of a Concept
  9. “Minding Hollywood”
  10. Politicizing the Mind-Game Film
  11. 1. On Mind-Game Films as Tipping Points: The Challenges of Cinema in the New Century
  12. 2. Too Late, Too Soon: Body, Time, and Agency
  13. 3. The Mind-Game Film
  14. 4. Time Travel Films: An Ethics of Redemption, Rescue, and Regret
  15. 5. The New Normal – Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication (NURSE BETTY 2000)
  16. 6. Saving Private Ryan
  17. 7. Philip K. Dick, the Mind-Game Film, and Retroactive Causality
  18. 8. Actions Have Consequences: Logics of the Mind-Game Film in David Lynch’s Los Angeles Trilogy
  19. 9. Zero Dark Thirty: Genre Hybridization as (Parapractic) Interference
  20. 10. Cinema and Games: Contingency as Our New Causality
  21. 11. Contingency, Causality, Complexity: Distributed Agency in the Mind-Game Film
  22. 12. The History of the Present as Paranoid Mind-Game
  23. Index