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Cinema and experience : Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno / Miriam Bratu Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011.
- Series:
- Weimar and now ; 44.
- Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; 44
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kracauer, Siegfried.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno-affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument-developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960's. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impressive archive of known and, in the case of Kracauer, less known materials and reveals surprising perspectives on canonic texts, including Benjamin's artwork essay. Her lucid analysis extrapolates from these writings the contours of a theory of cinema and experience that speaks to questions being posed anew as moving image culture evolves in response to digital technology.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Film, Medium of a Disintegrating World
- 2. Curious Americanism
- 3. Actuality, Antinomies
- 4. Aura. The Appropriation of a Concept
- 5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball
- 6. Micky-Maus
- 7. Play-Form of Second Nature
- 8. The Question of Film Aesthetics
- 9. Theory of Film
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613291851
- 9781283291859
- 1283291851
- 9780520950139
- 0520950135
- OCLC:
- 756484689
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