Culture in the anteroom
Subtitle: the legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
By: edited by Gerd Gemünden, Johannes von Moltke
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780472071678; 9780472051670; 9780472028153
Subjects: Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Kracauer's Legacies / Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von Moltke; title: Patterns of Reception. This Pen for Hire: Siegfried Kracauer as American Cultural Critic / Noah Isenberg; title: Manhattan Crossroads: Theory of Film between the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectuals / Johannes von Moltke; title: Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies / Eric Rentschler; title: Highway Through the Void: The Film Theorist and the Film Actress Looking after Kracauer / Heide Schlüpmann; title: Kracauer's Photography Essay: Dot Matrix General (An-)Archive Film Lutz Koepnick / Miriam Bratu Hansen; title: In Kracauer's Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image. Siegfried Kracauer's Two Art Histories / Elizabeth Otto; title: Siegfried Kracauer's Architectures / Claire Zimmerman; title: "Dioramas of a New World": Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture / Kerstin Barndt; title: Kracauer and Sound: Reading with an Anxious Ear / Theodore F. Rippey; title: Literary Genres. "Written by Himself": Siegfried Kracauer's "Auto-biographical" Novels / Christian Rogowski; title: The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin / Andreas Huyssen; title: Last Things Before the Last: History, Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethics. On Natural History: Concepts of History in Adorno and Kracauer / Christina Gerhardt; title: The "Passage" and the "Mission of Film": Kracauer's Investigations into Modern Realms of Experience / Sabine Biebl; title: Among Other Things a Miraculous Realist: Political Perspectives on the Theoretical; title: Entanglement of cinema and history in siegfried kracauer / Drehli Robnik; title: The Introspective Avant-Gardist: Kracauer as Cineaste and Ethnographer of the Weimar Republic / Inka Mülder-Bach.