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Harun Farocki : Working on the Sight-Lines.
Title:
Harun Farocki : Working on the Sight-Lines.
Author:
Elsaesser, Thomas.
ISBN:
9789048505265
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (415 pages)
Series:
Film Culture in Transition
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Harun Farocki: Filmmaker, Artist, Media Theorist -- Image In(ter)ventions -- Painting Pavements -- Images and Thoughts, People and Things, Materials and Methods -- Incisive Divides and Revolving Images: On the Installation -- Filming as Writing, Writing as Filming, Staking One's Life -- Passage along the Shadow-Line: Feeling One's Way Towards the Filmkritik-Style -- The Green of the Grass: Harun Farocki in Filmkritik -- Staking One's Life: Images of Holger Meins -- Between Wars, Between Images -- Working at the Margins: Film as a Form of Intelligence -- Dog from the Freeway -- Political Filmmaking after Brecht: Farocki, for Example -- Documenting the Life of Ideas? - Farocki and the 'Essay Film' -- The Road Not Taken: Films by Harun Farocki -- Slowly Forming a Thought While Working on Images -- Making the World Superfluous: An Interview with Harun Farocki -- Images of the World and the Inscription of War -- Reality Would Have to Begin -- Light Weapons -- The Political Im/perceptible: images of the world... -- Film: Media: Work: Archive -- Workers Leaving the Factory -- On Media and Democratic Politics: videograms of a Revolution -- Towards an Archive for Visual Concepts -- From the Surveillance Society to the Control Society -- Controlling Observation -- Nine Minutes in the Yard: A Conversation with Harun Farocki -- Harun Farocki: Critical Strategies -- Acknowledgements -- Farocki: A Filmography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles / Subjects -- Illustrations.
Abstract:
The first English-language book on Germany's 'best-known important filmmaker'.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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