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The curious humanist : Siegfried Kracauer in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : Niversity of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Film critics > Germany > Biography.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Motion pictures > History.
Motion pictures > Germany > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory
  • Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York
  • Totalitarian propaganda
  • Nazi cinema
  • Freedom from fear?
  • From Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema
  • Authoritarian, totalitarian
  • Reframing Caligari: the politics of cinema
  • Theory of film and the subject of experience
  • The curious humanist
  • History and humanist subjectivity
  • Epilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies.