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Siegfried Kracauer, Carl Skoggard
When World War I breaks out, a young architecture student in Munich does everything in his power to avoid being enlisted into the German military in this perceptive, wickedly humorous…
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Graeme Gilloch
This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.
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Gertrud Koch
Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky…
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Siegfried Kracauer
Explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. This book takes its place alongside works in classical film theory by such figures as Bela Balazs, Rudolf Arnheim, and Andre Bazin…
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This significant study is certain to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come. It demonstrates once and for all that motion pictures differ radically from…
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Il s'agit ici de ce que Walter Benjamin appelait, dans un compte rendu qu'il fit a l'epoque de l'ouvrage, une contribution a la sociologie des employes, d'un style et d'une…
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Un tire-au-flanc comme heros: Genet, un talentueux architecte, a 25 ans lorsque la Premiere Guerre mondiale eclate. Sceptique vis-a-vis de l'enthousiasme patriotique de ses contemporains, il tente a plusieurs reprises…
Johannes von Moltke,Gerd Gemunden
An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer’s body of work
Johannes von Moltke
During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century…
Miguel Vedda
This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer’s work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory…
Henrik Reeh
Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer’s urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life.
Annira Busch
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Theorien, Modelle, Begriffe, Note: 1,0, Universitat Osnabruck, Veranstaltung: Medien und Gesellschaft II, 21 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract…
Harry T. Craver
This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era’s cultural ferment.
Fisher, Peter S.
In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer’s trenchant observations on Weimar’s…
First published in 1930, this work has as its subject of inquiry the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Drawing on conversations, newspapers, adverts…
Best remembered today for his brilliant study of early German cinema, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological Study of the German Film, and for his involvement with the Frankfurt School…
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Places - Siegfried Kracauer, the German-born writer and film critic, who made a startling claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a…
Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. This book assembles essays in cultural…
Miriam Hansen
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…
Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on…
A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris.
Inka Mulder
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Teubingen, 1983.
Viola Ruhse
One of the most versatile journalists of the 20th century, Siegfried Kracauer was a passionate cinema-goer who, as a film critic and theorist, managed to professionalize his hobby. This volume…
A study of the relationship between past and present, and the relation between histories in different levels of generality. One after another Siegfried Kracauer examines various theories of history and…
This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two…
Thorsten Klasen
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Freie Universitat Berlin (Institut fur Deutsche und Niederlandische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Wissen und Alteritat. Kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche…
Margret Jonas
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzoesisch - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Universitat Mannheim (Universitat Mannheim), Veranstaltung: Neueste Tendenzen im franzoesischen Kriminalroman, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch…
Alexander Loewen
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Theorien, Modelle, Begriffe, Note: 1,7, Universitat Bayreuth, Veranstaltung: Medientheorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Realismus im Film ist seit Jahrzehnten ein…
Siegfried Kracauers Werk in seiner Breite und Originalitat steht im Zentrum dieses Bandes, der in internationaler und interdisziplinarer Perspektivierung eine Vielzahl der Themen, Denkfiguren und Schreibweisen des Autors analysiert. Kaum…
Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer
Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt…
