Lecture Series – ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’

The online media repository media/rep/ – which also provides PDF downloads of our issues – has made several lectures from the ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’, held at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, available online. The lecture series, named in honor of the Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), presents innovative contemporary scholarship on film and media. Including different perspectives on the study of science, theories of technology, cultural and media economics as well as political theory, the featured lectures contribute to the development and expansion of the field of media studies. Among the currently available lectures are Thomas Elsaesser’s talk on “Cinema as art form or life form”, Francesco Cassetti on “What Do You Mean When You Say ‘Cinema’?” and Laura Mulvey’s presentation on “Becoming History: Spectatorship, Technology and Feminist Film Theory“. Watch the lecture series here.