Michael Wedel

Die film- und medienwissenschaftliche Diskussion zum Thema Special Effects wird bisher von Fragen nach der Produktionsweise und technischen Realisierbarkeit dominiert. Der Band versammelt theoretische Grundlagentexte zu einer Wirkungsästhetik der Special Effects und verbindet sie mit konkreten Fallstudien zur kulturellen Wahrnehmung und empirischen Publikumsrezeption in verschiedenen Mediengattungen von Film und Fernsehen bis hin zu Internet-Videos und Computerspielen.

Beiträge zur Wirkungsästhetik und Rezeption transfilmischer Effekte

Special Effects in der Wahrnehmung des Publikums

German film in the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods is regarded as marked by a strong sense of cultural conservatism and the aspiration to be recognized as an art form. This book takes an alternative approach to the history of German cinema from the emergence of the early feature film to the transition to sound by focusing on the poetics of popular genres such as the disaster film, melodrama, the musical and the war film, exploring their cultural reverberations and modes of audience address. Based on the assumption that popular cinema contributed immensely to the breakthrough of a modern audiovisual "culture of the senses" in Germany between 1910 and 1930, Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture offers close readings of a number of rarely analyzed films, including one of the first cinematic adaptations of the Titanic disaster from 1912 and the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930. Restoring the films' horizons of historicity by locating them at crucial points of intersection between social, cultural, technological and aesthetic discourses, this book argues for the prominent role popular German cinema’s own forms of discursivity have played within the historical formation of modernity.

On the Poetics and Culture of Popular German Cinema, 1910-1930

Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture

Thomas Elsaesser

In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers records the stories of computing's past, enabling today's professionals to improve on the realities of yesterday. The stories in this book clearly show that modern concepts, such as data abstraction, modularity, and structured approaches, date much earlier in the field than their appearance in academic literature. These stories help capture the true evolution. The book illustrates human experiences and industry turning points through personal recollections by the pioneers ... people like Barry Boehm, Peter Denning, Watts Humphrey, Frank Land, and a dozen others.

Michael Wedel

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