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Culte de la Distraction : Miniatures Urbaines et Critiques de Films (1925-1933).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kracauer, Siegfried.
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Essay Collection
- Anthologies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Québec : Les Presses De l'Universite De Montreal, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book presents a collection of essays by Siegfried Kracauer, chronicling the cultural and aesthetic phenomena of urban modernity during the Weimar Republic (1925-1933). Through his acute observations as both a flâneur and a film critic, Kracauer explores the rituals, distractions, and emerging cultural forms that characterized the era, including cinema, mass entertainment, and the aesthetics of daily life. The essays reflect his sociological and philosophical insights, influenced by thinkers like Georg Simmel, and highlight the intersection of critical theory and cultural analysis. Intended for an intellectual audience, the book situates Kracauer's work within the broader context of German and European thought, emphasizing his role as a precursor to modern critical theory. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Couverture
- Page de demi-titre
- Pensée allemande et européenne
- Page titre
- Crédits
- Présentation
- Siegfried Kracauer, chroniqueur et mythographe de l’Époque de Weimar
- L’essai comme forme programmatique
- Miniatures urbaines
- Critique
- L’essai-fiction comme heuristique du visible
- Rendre visible un réel sans artifices
- Note éditoriale
- Remerciements
- Textes de Siegfried Kracauer
- Le voyage et la danse
- Monde du calicot. Ufa-ville à Neubabelsberg
- Culte de la distraction. Les salles de spectacle cinématographique berlinoises
- Les lampes Jupiter restent allumées. À propos du film Potemkine
- Les chauffeurs saluent
- Chaplin
- Ils « sportent »
- Publicité lumineuse
- L’ornement de la masse
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- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 2-7606-5384-6
- 2-7606-5383-8
- OCLC:
- 1522897278
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