Culture in the anteroom : the legacies of Siegfried Kracauer / edited by Gerd Gemünden, Johannes von Moltke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gemünden, Gerd, 1959-

Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

Kracauer, Siegfried.

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer's body of work.

Contents:

Introduction: Kracauer's Legacies / Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von Moltke

Patterns of Reception. This Pen for Hire: Siegfried Kracauer as American Cultural Critic / Noah Isenberg

Manhattan Crossroads: Theory of Film between the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectuals / Johannes von Moltke

Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies / Eric Rentschler

Highway Through the Void: The Film Theorist and the Film Actress Looking after Kracauer / Heide Schlüpmann

Kracauer's Photography Essay: Dot Matrix General (An-)Archive Film Lutz Koepnick / Miriam Bratu Hansen

In Kracauer's Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image. Siegfried Kracauer's Two Art Histories / Elizabeth Otto

Siegfried Kracauer's Architectures / Claire Zimmerman

"Dioramas of a New World": Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture / Kerstin Barndt

Kracauer and Sound: Reading with an Anxious Ear / Theodore F. Rippey

Literary Genres. "Written by Himself": Siegfried Kracauer's "Auto-biographical" Novels / Christian Rogowski

The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin / Andreas Huyssen

Last Things Before the Last: History, Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethics. On Natural History: Concepts of History in Adorno and Kracauer / Christina Gerhardt

The "Passage" and the "Mission of Film": Kracauer's Investigations into Modern Realms of Experience / Sabine Biebl

Among Other Things a Miraculous Realist: Political Perspectives on the Theoretical

Entanglement of cinema and history in siegfried kracauer / Drehli Robnik

The Introspective Avant-Gardist: Kracauer as Cineaste and Ethnographer of the Weimar Republic / Inka Mülder-Bach.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

1-280-48691-0

9786613582140

0-472-02815-4

OCLC:

923505094

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.1980310