Roswitha Mueller: Bertolt Brecht and the Theory of Media (1989)

Bertolt Brecht spent a career puncturing artistic illusion while casting a spell as an innovator that has continued since his death in 1956. Best known to theater goers for “The Threepenny Opera,” “Mother Courage and her Children,” “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” and other production, the great playwright was, in fact, a man of all media. He was interested in radio and the cinema as soon as they appeared in Europe and brought to them, as well as to the stage, a dramatic theory so radical and influential that it has come to be known by the adjective “Brechtian.”

Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 1989
Modern German Culture and Literature series
ISBN 0803231326, 9780803231320
149 pages

Reviews: Katie Trumpener, Susan Bennett (Theatre Research International).

PDF (no OCR)

Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema journal, Nos. 1–2: Programming/Montage & Forms in Revolution (2012–13) [EN/ES/CAT]

Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema is a biannual publication founded in 2012. It focuses on comparative cinema and the reception and interpretation of film in different social and political contexts. Each issue investigates the conceptual and formal relationships between films, material processes and production and exhibition practices, the history of ideas and film criticism.

Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema addresses an original area of research, developing a series of methodologies for a comparative study of cinema. With this aim, it also explores the relationship between cinema and comparative literature as well as other contemporary arts such as painting, photography, music or dance, and audio-visual media.

Edited by Colectivo de Investigación Estética de los Medios Audiovisuales (CINEMA) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
ISSN 2014-8933

Volume 1, Nº 1, «Programming/Montage», 2012
PDF (English), Spanish, Catalan.
View online (HTML articles, English), Spanish, Catalan.

Volume 1, Nº 2, «Forms in revolution», 2013
PDF (English), Spanish, Catalan.
View online (HTML articles, English), Spanish, Catalan.

Jean Epstein: Écrits sur le cinéma, 1921-1953, tome 1-2 (1974–75) [French]

Foreword by Henri Langlois
Introduction by Pierre Leprohon
Publisher Seghers, Paris, 1974–75
436 and 352 pages
via Reyovak

Tome 1: 1921-1947 (Foreword and Introduction are missing, 125 MB)
Tome 2: 1946-1953 (95 MB)