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Mind the Screen pays tribute to Thomas Elsaesser, pioneering and leading scholars in the field of film and media studies. The contributions present a close-up of media concepts developed by Elsaesser, providing a looking glass for all types of audio-visual screens, from archaeological pre-cinematic screens to the silver screen, from the TV-set to the video installation and the digital e-screen, and from the city screen to the mobile phone display.The book is divided in three 'Acts': Melodrama, Memory, Mind Game; Europe-Hollywood-Europe; Archaeology, Avant-Garde, Archive. Between the Acts Intermezzo's with a story board of one of Elsaesser's articles and a scenario about 'the afterlife of a film scholar' are included.