Siegfried Kracauer : an introduction /

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"Gertrud Koch has written a most lucid and much-needed analytical introduction to the diverse work of Siegfried Kracauer. Her study is brief yet comprehensive, both precise and incisive, deferent to previous scholarship yet never derivative. Koch's book is decidedly original in its sensiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koch, Gertrud, 1949-
Other Authors: Gaines, Jeremy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966
1900-1999
Motion pictures.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Intellectual life.
Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Films.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Time Line of Kracauer's Life
  • The Early Days : A Biographical Sketch
  • The Early Phenomenology of Modernity and Mass Culture : Of Hotel Lobbies and Detective Novels
  • Surface and Self-Representation : "The Mass Ornament" and Die Angestellten
  • Autobiography and Social Biography : Ginster, Georg, and Offenbach
  • Continuity and Mentality : "From Caligari to Hitler"
  • Space, Time, and Apparatus : The Optical Medium "Theory of Film"
  • At the End : A Philosophy of History and Historiography.

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