Cultural Theory
Film History & Theory
Media Studies
Bibliography and Publications
Contact
210 East Pyne
(609) 258-1384
Office Hours
Thu
9:30 – 11:30 am
And by appointment.
Courses Offered
Spring 2022
2021-22 Spring – GER211 – Introduction to Media TheoryGER 211
Introduction to Media Theory
Fall 2022
2022-23 Fall – GER308 – Topics in German Film History and Theory: Film Theory / Theory FilmsGER 308
Topics in German Film History and Theory: Film Theory / Theory Films
2022-23 Fall – GER523 – Topics in German Media Theory & History: Sonic Politics
GER 523
Topics in German Media Theory & History: Sonic Politics
Profile
Thomas Levin joined the Princeton faculty?in 1990 following graduate study in art history and philosophy at Yale University and after a year in Los Angeles as a fellow at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. His teaching and scholarship range from?Frankfurt School cultural theory and?the history and theory of film?(cinema & philosophy, early German cinema, Weimar cinema, New German Cinema) to various aspects of media theory (archaeologies of vision, rhetorics of new media, cultural politics of surveillance) and?sound studies. Levin has been a?fellow at the?Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften?IFK (Vienna),?at the Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study (Budapest), and a Senior Fellow at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2004?and at the?Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie?(IKKM)?at the Bauhaus Universit?t Weimar in 2011. Together with his Princeton colleague Nikolaus Wegmann and the two directors of the IKKM, Bernhard Siegert & Lorenz Engell,?Levin co-founded the Princeton-Weimar Media Studies Summer School in 2010, which he has co-directed every other year since itsinception.
Selected Publications
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings onMedia
Belknap Press / Harvard University Press,
CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to BigBrother
The MIT Press,