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Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings : Essays on Film and Popular Culture / Siegfried Kracauer; Johannes von Moltke, Kristy Rawson.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966, Author.
- Series:
- Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
- Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Theorie des Films.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures--Reviews.
- Local Subjects:
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Theorie des Films.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950's. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré intellectual.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface: Notes on This Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Affinities
- part I. A Cultural Critic in New York
- part II. Film Reviews
- part III. Book Reviews
- part IV. Toward a Theory of Film
- Afterword: Kracauer, the Magical Nominalist
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613587329
- 9781280492099
- 1280492090
- 9780520952003
- 0520952006
- OCLC:
- 792819222
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