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The Politics of Imagination : Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge /
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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2007]
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| Edición: | 1. Aufl. |
| Colección: | Kultur- und Medientheorie.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Benjamin, Proust and the Rejuvenating Powers of Memory
- Chapter 2: The Politics of Aura and Imagination in Benjamin's Writings on Hashish
- Chapter 3: "Reproducibility
- Distraction
- Politicization"
- Chapter 4: "Film as the Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life": Kracauer and the Promise of Realist Cinema
- Chapter 5: On the Task of a Realist Historiography in Kracauer's History: The Last Things Before the Last
- Chapter 6: From History's Rubble: Kluge on Film, History, and Politics
- Chapter 7: Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Other Works Cited
- Acknowledgements.