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Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film /

Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan of the comedies of Adolphe Menjou, Mickey Mouse, and Charlie Chaplin. As an antidote to repressive c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mourenza, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anthropological materialism and the aesthetics of film
  • Soviet film : the giant laboratory of technological innervation
  • Film and the aesthetics of German fascism
  • Charlie Chaplin : the return of the allegorical mode in modernity
  • Mickey Mouse : utopian and barbarian
  • Conclusion : Benjamin's Belated Aktualität.