Contents
The Mind-Game Film: Provenance of a Concept
Warren Buckland
“Minding Hollywood”
Dana Polan
Politicizing the Mind-Game Film
Seung-hoon Jeong
1. On Mind-Game Films as Tipping Points: The Challenges of Cinema in the New Century
Thomas Elsaesser
2. Too Late, Too Soon: Body, Time, and Agency
Thomas Elsaesser
3. The Mind-Game Film
Thomas Elsaesser
4. Time Travel Films: An Ethics of Redemption, Rescue, and Regret
Thomas Elsaesser
5. The New Normal – Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication (NURSE BETTY 2000)
Thomas Elsaesser
6. Saving Private Ryan
Thomas Elsaesser
7. Philip K. Dick, the Mind-Game Film, and Retroactive Causality
Thomas Elsaesser
8. Actions Have Consequences: Logics of the Mind-Game Film
in David Lynch’s Los Angeles Trilogy
Thomas Elsaesser
9. Zero Dark Thirty: Genre Hybridization as (Parapractic)
Interference
Thomas Elsaesser
10. Cinema and Games: Contingency as Our New Causality
Thomas Elsaesser
11. Contingency, Causality, Complexity: Distributed Agency in
the Mind-Game Film
Thomas Elsaesser
12. The History of the Present as Paranoid Mind-Game
Thomas Elsaesser
