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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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film
- 2. Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation
- 3. Film and the Aesthetics of German Fascism
- 4. Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity
- 5. Mickey Mouse: Utopian and Barbarian
- Conclusion: Benjamin's Belated Aktualität
- Bibliography
- Index