Theory of Film
"Just as new translations of Kracauer's early works have begun  to reveal aspects of his intellectual project previously unavailable to  readers of English, this most welcome new edition of Kracauer's magnum  opus of media aesthetics will cast a new interpretative light on his  later work, thanks especially to Miriam Hansen's highly illuminating  introductory essay." --Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University"Kracauer's profound theoretical investigation revealed film as  the form that best captured the new modes of experience that  characterize modernity. Miriam Hansen's brilliant introduction  chronicles the work's genesis and transformation through Kracauer's  conversations with Adorno and Benjamin, his flight from the Nazis, and  his uneasy assimilation into the Cold-War United States." --Tom Gunning, University of Chicago