Siegfried Kracauer's American writings : essays on film and popular culture /
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. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English with some essays translated from German. |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ;
45. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520271821 (electronic bk.) 0520271823 (electronic bk.) 9780520952003 (electronic bk.) 0520952006 (electronic bk.) |