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Monday, April 25
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Michelson Theater
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Thomas Elsaesser (Professor Emeritus at the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor at Columbia University) will give a public talk in Marina Hassapopoulou's Film Theory Through the Senses graduate course.
Thomas Elsaesser has authored, edited and co-edited some 20 volumes on film history, film theory, German and European cinema, Hollywood, Media archaeology, New Media and Installation Art. Among his recent books as author are: German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 (New York: Routledge, 2013) and (with Malte Hagener) Film Theory – An Introduction through the Senses (2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2015). Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema is due out in September 2016, a chapter of which has just been published in the New Review of Film and Television Studies.