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... © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 In Memoriam Miriam Hansen After years of battling cancer with courage and determination, Miriam Hansen died on February 5, 2011. Her loss is intensely mourned by all of us to whom she was an inspiration as a film scholar, intellectual...

...Susan Buck-Morss These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

... to the cinematic image than absorption or enthrallment. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Miriam Hansen’s Preface and Epilogue: Mourning and Media Tom Gunning This has been a difficult essay to write. For me, as for most critics, writing depends...

...Daniel Morgan Miriam Hansen's idea of vernacular modernism explains the global appeal of classical Hollywood cinema by drawing on its affinity with modernist aesthetics. She argues that cinema's modernism is part of a widespread mass culture response to the changing features of modern life...

...Weihong Bao This article revisits Miriam Hansen's theory of vernacular modernism by putting it in dialogue with wartime Chongqing propaganda film theory. Comparing key points of parallel between Hansen's dual interest in the linguistic and sensorial function of cinema and Chongqing propaganda film...

...Mary Ann Doane Miriam Hansen's work consistently contests the “linguistic turn” of structuralism, poststructuralism, and 1970s film theory. Yet the trope of language seems to return incessantly in her critical discourse as a privileged object of analysis—the concept of a universal language...

... argues that such a reading is only partly correct. Indeed, Adorno thought that film could be a medium for critique, yet he never stopped asserting film’s heteronomy. Building on the work of Miriam Hansen, the article argues that for Adorno, critical film could overcome the limitation of technique...

...Edward Dimendberg These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

...D. N. Rodowick These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

...Laura Mulvey These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

...Eric Rentschler These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

...Gertrud Koch; Simon Rothöhler In an interview with the editor of Cargo (Berlin), Gertrud Koch reflects on the objectives and accomplishments of Miriam Hansen's book Cinema and Experience . She assesses the volume's place within scholarship on the Frankfurt School and the media as well as considers...

...Yuri Tsivian The history of editing as sketched in this article examines the theory of vernacular modernism proposed by Miriam Hansen in 1999. Taking stock of physical, optical, and temporal limitations imposed by the medium of film on actors, playwrights, and directors leads to a system...

...Pamela Wojcik This essay considers the meaning and value of Miriam Hansen's notion of vernacular modernism through an examination of films starring the Dead End Kids. It argues that the contradictions of modernity are played out through the figure of the child in these films by balancing a kind...

...Bill Brown Through archaeological, conceptual, and rhetorical insights, Miriam Hansen puts play ( Spiel ) to work in Cinema and Experience . When she engages Walter Benjamin's treatment of film in the “Artwork” essay, she retrieves Spiel from Spielraum , naturalizing a somewhat idiosyncratic...

...Martin Jay Miriam Hansen's studies of both American silent film and Frankfurt School film theory drew on the critique of Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere developed by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge. Expanding it beyond the bourgeoisie and stressing the importance of experience as well...

...Heide Schlüpmann These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

...Anton Kaes These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide Schlüpmann...

...Sabine Haenni While promiscuity suggests a certain randomness, intellectual promiscuity implies rigor combined with randomness. This article traces Miriam Hansen's understanding of cinema as a promiscuous medium that can be approached only by adapting an intellectual and methodological promiscuity...

...Matthew Charles Abstract Walter Benjamin refers to the “idea of revolution as an innervation of the technical organs of the collective” as one article of his politics. Drawing on some of the debates and tensions generated by the work of Miriam Bratu Hansen, the article analyzes lesser-known...