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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mourenza, Daniel (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.