"Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner (1896-1983). From a trailblazing female film critic in interwar Berlin, to an escaped prisoner in occupied France; from chief curat...

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1. Verfasser:	DeCelles, Naomi (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oakland, California University of California Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:	Feminist media histories 3
Schlagworte:	Eisner, Lotte H. > 1896-1983 Eisner, Lotte H. Women film critics / Biography Mass media / 20th century Mass media Women film critics 1900-1999 Biographies Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	"Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner (1896-1983). From a trailblazing female film critic in interwar Berlin, to an escaped prisoner in occupied France; from chief curator at the Cinémathèque Franc̜aise, to her mythic role as the 'collective conscience' of New German Cinema--Lotte Eisner was a prolific writer and lecturer and a pivotal voice in early film and media studies. Situated at the juncture of feminist media historiography and disciplinary intellectual history, this groundbreaking book is based on extensive multilingual archival research and the excavation of a rich corpus of previously overlooked materials. Introducing samples of Eisner's writing in translation, this volume makes some of the most important contributions of a foundational scholar in the field of film studies accessible for the first time to an English-language readership"--
Beschreibung:	ix, 226 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 24 cm
ISBN:	9780520388130 9780520388123