Remembrance | Mediapolis

no. 1, Remembrance, vol. 5February 14, 2020

The Empty Centre: The Legacy of Thomas Elsaesser

By Floris Paalman

Film scholar Thomas Elsaesser passed away in Beijing on December 4, 2019. His death not only coincides with the end of a decade, but also marks the end of an era. Elsaesser (born in Berlin, 1943) belonged to the generation …

Postscriptum: Remembering Thomas Elsaesser

By Igor Krstić

I can add only little to what Floris already outlined in his piece in regard to Thomas Elsaesser’s scholarly concepts and wide-ranging interests, including those relevant to the Mediapolis readership. What I can confirm, from a more personal point of …

The Practice of the Interdisciplinary: A Tribute to Doreen Massey

By Malini Guha

In a conversation with film and television scholar Karen Lury titled “Making Connections,” the late Doreen Massey observes

…what we have already agreed on, it seems, is that the potential for creative dialogue between people in film studies and those