Postwar: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg is the first monograph on Eisenberg's work, with contributions from some of the most respected writers on contemporary film and media art and exclusive photography by Eisenberg himself. Postwar: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg presents the major films of filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg: Displaced Person, 1981, Cooperation of Parts, 1987, Persistence, 1997, and Something More than Night, 2003, through newly commissioned essays by highly respected writers of contemporary film and media art, including Raymond Bellour, Nora Alter, Tom Gunning and Christa Blumlinger. This book presents the first survey of Eisenberg's work, placing it in the context of contemporary theory and experimental media practice. As in the work of Claude Lanzmann, Harun Farocki and Alexander Kluge, history is the ground for investigation and experimentation for Eisenberg. The concept of ?postwar? finds form in each of his films, though explored differently in each one. The book also serves as a matrix for a new photography project by Daniel Esienberg, designing exclusively for the book, drawn from stills from the films, images of source material, ephemera and the filmmaker's own collection. The contributors each focus on a specific film of Eisenberg's. In a playful and unconventional way the book mirrors the ways in which these films bring image and text into a direct encounter with the physical experience of history, and how his poetic texts create a dialogue with images. Postwar offers Eisenberg's dense and critically rich films to a wide audience of filmmakers, scholars and students of history, art and media. AUTHOR: Daniel Eisenberg was born in Israel in 1954 and emigrated to the United States with his family in the late 1950s. He studied film at the State University of New York. He lives in Chicago and works as a professor in Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker, writer and Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of California; he has made many films and is the author of many articles, essays and a book on experimental film and video. Raymond Bellour is a French critic and author. He currently works as Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, and is one of Europe's foremost theorists of film, video and new media. Nora Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She has written two books on the subject and has contributed to many essays, articles and journals. Tom Gunning is a Professor in the Art Department and the Cinema and Media Committee at the University of Chicago. ILLUSTRATIONS 211 colour ,b/w
