Siegfried Kracauer : : An Introduction / / Gertrud Koch.

Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naïve realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle of famed Frankfurt School critical theorists Jürgen Ha...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
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Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Time Line of Kracauer's Life
  • CHAPTER 1. The Early Days: A Biographical Sketch
  • CHAPTER 2. The Early Phenomenology of Modernity and Mass Culture: Of Hotel Lobbies and Detective Novels
  • CHAPTER 3. Surface and Self-Representation: "The Mass Ornament" and Die Angestellten
  • CHAPTER 4. Autobiography and Social Biography: Ginster, Georg, and Offenbach
  • CHAPTER 5. Continuity and Mentality: "From Caligari to Hitler"
  • CHAPTER 6. Space, Time, and Apparatus: The Optical Medium "Theory of Film"
  • CHAPTER 7. At the End: A Philosophy of History and Historiography
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index