The volume deals with the concept of art in relation to film, dealing with both aesthetic theory and concrete works. The spectrum includes feature films and documentaries. The focus is on the aesthetic innovations of the medium throughout its history and in the present. The development of visual ideas is related to the historical and social context of their creation and reception. The focus is on film authors, film artists and film movements that can be found not only in independent film but also in the mainstream.

The editors

Dr. Lutz Hieber is a professor at the Institute of Sociology at Leibniz University Hannover.

Dr. Rainer Winter is a professor at the Institute of Media and Communication Studies at the Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book would look stylistically different from a conventional translation.