The politics of imagination : : Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge / / Tara Forrest.
This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kultur- und Medientheorie
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 9 Chapter 1: Benjamin, Proust and the Rejuvenating Powers of Memory 21 Chapter 2: The Politics of Aura and Imagination in Benjamin's Writings on Hashish 43 Chapter 3: "Reproducibility - Distraction - Politicization" 65 Chapter 4: "Film as the Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life": Kracauer and the Promise of Realist Cinema 89 Chapter 5: On the Task of a Realist Historiography in Kracauer's History: The Last Things Before the Last 107 Chapter 6: From History's Rubble: Kluge on Film, History, and Politics 127 Chapter 7: Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television 149 Conclusion 169 Bibliography 175 Other Works Cited 191 Acknowledgements 193