Recollecting Lotte Eisner - Cinema, Exile, and the Archive

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 her early years as a film critic in interwar Berlin to her escape from prison in occupied France and from her role as chief curator at the Cinematheque francaise to that as the mythic "collective conscience" of New German Cinema, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Decelles
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780520388123
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38812-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Feminist Media Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Media Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, European History, Biography: general, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Film Theory & Criticism, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Film history, theory or criticism