This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Silvia Vega-Llona, "Prologue: Thomas Elsaesser and The Mind-Game Film" Warren Buckland, "The Mind-Game Film: Provenance of a Concept" Dana Polan, "Minding Hollywood" Seung-hoon Jeong, "Politicizing the Mind-Game Film" 1. On Mind-Game Films as Tipping Points: The Challenges of Cinema in the New Century 2. Too Late, Too Soon: Body, Time, and Agency 3. The Mind-Game Film 4. Time Travel Films: An Ethics of Redemption, Rescue, and Regret 5. The New Normal - Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication (NURSE BETTY 2000) 6. Saving Private Ryan 7. Philip K Dick, the Mind-Game film, and Retroactive Causality 8. Actions Have Consequences: Logics of the Mind-Game Film in David Lynch's Los Angeles Trilogy 9. Zero Dark Thirty: Genre Hybridization as (Parapractic) Interference 10. Cinema and Games: Contingency as Our New Causality 11. Contingency, Causality, Complexity: Distributed Agency in the Mind-Game Film 12. The History of the Present as Paranoid Mind-Game
