The Curious Humanist : Siegfried Kracauer in America /

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"Siegfried Kracauer is today considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. During the Weimar Republic, he established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, now often ranked alongside his friends Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. When he arrived in...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966.
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Film critics.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Cinema > Allemagne > Histoire.
Cinema > Histoire.
Critiques de cinema > Allemagne > Biographies.
Motion pictures > Germany > History.
Motion pictures > History.
Film critics > Germany > Biography.
Germany.
Biographies.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biography
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory
  • Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York
  • Totalitarian propaganda
  • Nazi cinema
  • Freedom from fear?
  • From Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema
  • Authoritarian, totalitarian
  • Reframing Caligari: the politics of cinema
  • Theory of film and the subject of experience
  • The curious humanist
  • History and humanist subjectivity
  • Epilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies.

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