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Title

Harun Farocki : working on the sight-lines / edited by Thomas Elsaesser.

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019

Description

379 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this monograph - the first critical publication on Farocki in English - leading scholars from the United States, France and Germany assess his work from differing perspectives, bringing to bear a range of theoretical and political concerns as well as reflecting on his exemplary biography as a film director, artist and media theorist." "The analytical essays are complemented by interviews, a selection of writings by Farocki himself and an extensive filmography."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Film culture in transition

Uniform Title

Film culture in transition.

Subject

Farocki, Harun

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. [325]-361.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Harun Farocki : filmmaker, artist, media theorist / Thomas Elsaesser -- Painting pavements / Volker Siebel -- Images and thoughts, people and things, materials and methods / Jörg Becker -- Incisive divides and revolving images : on the installation Schnittstelle / Christa Blümlinger -- Passage along the shadow-line : feeling one's way towards the Filmkritik-style / Olaf Möller -- The green of the grass : Harun Farocki in Filmkritik / edited by Rainer Knepperges -- Staking one's life : images of Holger Meins / Harun Farocki -- Working at the margins : film as a form of intelligence / Thomas Elsaesser -- Dog from the freeway / Harun Farocki -- Political filmmaking after Brecht : Farocki, for example / Thomas Elsaesser -- The road not taken : films by Harun Farocki / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Slowly forming a thought while working on images / Christa Blümlinger -- Making the world superfluous : an interview with Harun Farocki / Thomas Elsaesser -- Reality would have to begin / Harun Farocki -- Light weapons / Tom Keenan -- The political im/perceptible : Images of the world-- / Nora Alter -- Workers leaving the factory / Harun Farocki -- On media and democratic politics : Videograms of a revolution / Benjamin Young -- Towards an archive for visual concepts / Wolfgang Ernst and Harun Farocki -- Controlling observation / Harun Farocki -- Nine minutes in the yard : a conversation with Harun Farocki / Rembert Hüser -- Harun Farocki : critical strategies / Christa Blümlinger.

ISBN

• 9053566368
• 9789053566367
• 905356635X (pbk.)
• 9789053566350 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004480842

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library