Cinema and Experience - Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno

Zusatztext "Cinema and Experience aptly fuses historiography and theory." Informationen zum Autor The late Miriam Bratu Hansen was Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago and the founding chair of what is now the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Her publications include Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film and numerous essays in international film history and film theory. Klappentext 97384733 Zusammenfassung Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I. Kracauer 1. Film! Medium of a Disintegrating World 2. Curious Americanism Part II. Benjamin 3. Actuality! Antinomies 4. Aura: The Appropriation of a Concept 5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball 6. Micky-Maus 7. Room-for-Play Part III. Adorno 8. The Question of Film Aesthetics Part IV. Kracauer in Exile 9. Theory of Film Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Marian Bratu Hansen, Miriam Hansen, Miriam Bratu Hansen, Hansen Miriam
• Assisted by: Edward Dimendberg (Editor), Dimendberg Edward (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2011
• EAN: 9780520265592
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26559-2
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism; Weimar and Now: German Cultura; Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism; Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General