With a long and distinguished body of writing to his name, Thomas Elsaesser is justly recognised as one of the foremost film historians and critical theorists of his generation. Drehli Robnik examines the rich tapestry of ideas that informs his work.
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Drehli Robnik
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Drehli Robnik is historian and film theorist based in Vienna-Erdberg with a PhD in film studies from University of Amsterdam. A key researcher at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna, on the historicity of film with respect to Hollywood´s (re-)visions of WWI, and author of monographs (in German) on Jacques Rancière´s political film aesthetics, and on the politics of affect in films on German anti-Nazi resistance, and an essay on Siegfried Kracauer appeared in Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Felicity Colman (ed.) London: Acumen 2009).
