Culture in the anteroom : the legacies of Siegfried Kracauer /

" ... 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 Hu...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Gemünden, Gerd, 1959-, Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2012
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Table of 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.