Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication / / Siegfried Kracauer; ed. by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch, John Abromeit.

Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his contemporaries and colleagues associated with...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 80
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • General Introduction
  • Part 1 Studies of Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and the Masses (1936– 1940)
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 Exposé. Mass and Propaganda. An Inquiry Into Fascist Propaganda
  • 2. Totalitarian Propaganda
  • 3 Abridged Restricted Schema
  • 4 Schemata
  • 5 Disposition
  • Part 2 The Caligari Complex (1943– 1947)
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 6. The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939– 40
  • 7 The Hitler Image
  • 8. Below the Surface: Project of a Test Film
  • Part 3 Postwar Publics (1948– 1950)
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 9 Re- education Program for the Reich
  • 10 How and Why the Public Responds to the Propagandist
  • 11 Popular Advertisements
  • 12 A Duck Crosses Main Street
  • 13 National Types as Hollywood Presents Them
  • 14 Deluge of Pictures
  • Part 4 Cold War Tensions (1952– 1958)
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 15. Appeals to the Near and Middle East: Implications of the Communications Studies Along the Soviet Periphery
  • 16 Attitudes Toward Various Communist Types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
  • 17 Proposal for a Research Project Designed to Promote the Use of Qualitative Analysis in the Social Sciences
  • 18 The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis
  • 19 On the Relation of Analysis to the Situational Factors in Case Studies
  • 20 The Social Research Center on the Campus
  • Appendix 1: “Report on the Work ‘Totalitarian Propaganda in Germany and Italy’ by Siegfried Kracauer, pp. 1– 106”
  • Appendix 2 Siegfried Kracauer and the Early Frankfurt School’s Analysis of Fascism as Right- Wing Populism
  • Bibliography
  • Sources
  • Index