Mind-Game as Zeitgeist: Reading Hollywood, America, and Contemporary Times Through its Popular Culture

Authors

  • Melanie Kreitler International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1232

Abstract

Thomas Elsaesser’s posthumous publication The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology unites 12 articles of his most influential and intriguing thoughts on contemporary complex Hollywood cinema. The book offers a kaleidoscopic view on the heterogeneous corpus of films that Elsaesser perceives as symptomatic of institutional, political, ideological, and socio-cultural concerns of America and the world. In this, Elsaesser does not merely analyze mind-game films, but canvases the U.S. American zeitgeist through its popular culture.

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Published

2021-12-17

Issue

No. 64 (2021): KULT_online 64 (2021)

Section

KULT_reviews

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How to Cite

“Mind-Game As Zeitgeist: Reading Hollywood, America, and Contemporary Times Through Its Popular Culture”. 2021. KULT_online, no. 64 (December). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1232.