Transmission Image: Visual Translation and Cultural Agency (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443800051)

Birgit Mersmann is professor of Non-Western and European Art at the Jacobs University Bremen, and Alexandra Schneider lecturer at the Film Studies Department of Free University Berlin. Alexandra Schneider is Lecturer at the Film Studies Department of the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany. She has published a book on home movies (Die Stars sind wir. Marburg: Schuren, 2004) and co-edited several books, including: Flugbilder-Kinobilder vom Fliegen. Muenster: Lit Verlag (2008, forthcoming) and Import-Export. India. Germany. Austria. Berlin: Parthas (2005). Her work has been published in Visual Anthropology, Film History and Montage/av. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Nancy Adajania, Heike Behrend, Hans Belting, Peter J. Braunlein, Markus Buschhaus, Iris Darmann, Martin Gieselmann, Simone Griessmayer, Anne von der Heiden, Asko Lehmuskallio, Birgit Mersmann, and Beat Wyss.