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.

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966.

Philosophy.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology-including pieces from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schlüpmann-brings together literary and film scholars, historians and art historians, sociologists, and architects to address the scope and current relevance of a body of work dedicated to investigating all aspects of modernism and modernity. The contributors approach Kracauer's writings from a variety of angles, some by placing them in dialogue with his contemporaries in Weimar Germany and the New York Intellectuals of the 1940s and '50s; others by exploring relatively unknown facets of Kracauer's oeuvre by considering his contributions to architectural history, the history of radio as well as other new media, and museum and exhibition culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Patterns of Reception

This Pen for Hire: Siegfried Kracauer as American Cultural Critic / Noah Isenberg Isenberg, Noah 29

Manhattan Crossroads: Theory of Film between the Frankfurt School and the New York intellectuals / Johannes von Moltke Moltke, Johannes von 42

Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies / Eric Rentschler Rentschler, Eric 61

Highway Through the Void: The Film Theorist and the Film Actress / Heide Schlüpmann Schlüpmann, Heide 76

Looking After Kracauer

Kracauer's Photography Essay: Dot Matrix-General (An-)Archive-Film / Miriam Bratu Hansen Hansen, Miriam Bratu 93

In Kracauer's Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image / Lutz Koepnick Koepnick, Lutz 111

Siegfried Kracauer's Two Art Histories / Elizabeth Otto Otto, Elizabeth 128

Siegfried Kracauer's Architectures / Claire Zimmerman Zimmerman, Claire 149

"Dioramas of a New World": Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture / Kerstin Barndt Barndt, Kerstin 166

Kracauer and Sound: Reading with an Anxious Ear / Theodore F. Rippey Rippey, Theodore F. 183

Literary Genres

"Written by Himself": Siegfried Kracauer's "Auto-Biographical" Novels / Christian Rogowski Rogowski, Christian 199

The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin / Andreas Huyssen Huyssen, Andreas 213

Last Things Before the Last: History, Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethics

On Natural History: Concepts of History in Adorno and Kracauer / Christina Gerhardt Gerhardt, Christina 229

The "Passage" and the "Mission of Film": Kracauer's Investigations into Modern Realms of Experience / Sabine Biebl Biebl, Sabine 244

Among Other Things-a Miraculous Realist: Political Perspectives on the Theoretical Entanglement of Cinema and History in Siegfried Kracauer / Drehli Robnik Robnik, Drehli 258

The Exile of Modernity: Kracauer's Figurations of the Stranger / Inka Mülder-Bach Mülder-Bach, Inka 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472071678

9780472051670

9780472028153

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.1980310

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