Siegfried Kracauer's American writings
Subtitle: essays on film and popular culture
By: Siegfried Kracauer ; edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson ; with an afterword by Martin Jay
Contributors: Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966-; Rawson, Kristy, 1963-
Series: Weimar and now: German cultural criticism -- 45
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520271821; 9780520271838; 9780520952003
Subjects: Motion pictures; Reviews
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English with some essays translated from German.
Table of contents: title: Between Hollywood and Europe: a cultural critic in New York. Why France liked our films (1942); title: Hollywood's terror films (1946); title: Jean Vigo (1947); title: The revolt against rationality (1947); title: Jewish culture (1947); title: Filming the subconscious (1948); title: Psychiatry for everything and everybody (1948); title: Those movies with a message (1948); title: National types as Hollywood presents them (1949); title: The mirror up to nature (1949); title: Preston Sturges, or laughter betrayed (1950); title: Art today (1961); title: About the state of the humanities; title: A statement on the humanistic approach; title: Talk with Teddie (1960); title: A critic at large I: film reviews. An American experiment (1941); title: Dumbo (1941); title: Film notes from Hollywood (1941); title: A few American films (1941); title: William Wyler's new Bette Davis film (1941); title: Flaherty, the land (1942); title: For whom the bell tolls (1943); title: Pais? (1948); title: The decent German (1949); title: The eternal Jew (1956); title: A few notes on The connection (1961); title: A critic at large II: book reviews. In Eisenstein's workshop (1943); title: The Russian director (1949); title: The movie colony (1942); title: A lady of valor (1947); title: The Teutonic mind (1948); title: Consciousness, free and spontaneous (1948); title: Indologian holiday (1948); title: Portrait in film (1948); title: Total teaching; title: Pictorial deluge (1950); title: Movie mirror (1950); title: Reflexion faite (1952); title: Toward a theory of film. Stage vs. screen acting (1950); title: The photographic approach (1951); title: Silent film comedy (1951); title: The found story and the episode (1956); title: Letter to film 56 (1956); title: Afterword:  Kracauer, the magical nominalist / Martin Jay.