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This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.
Sommario
Preface
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Part I: Studies of Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and the Masses (1936–1940)
1. Exposé. Mass and Propaganda. An Inquiry Into Fascist Propaganda
2. Totalitarian Propaganda
3. Abridged Restricted Schema
4. Schemata
5. Disposition
Part II: The Caligari Complex (1943–1947)
6. The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939–40
7. The Hitler Image
8. Below the Surface: Project of a Test Film
Part III: Postwar Publics (1948–1950)
9. Re-education Program for the Reich
10. How and Why the Public Responds to the Propagandist
11. Popular Advertisements
12. A Duck Crosses Main Street
13. National Types as Hollywood Presents Them
14. Deluge of Pictures
Part IV: Cold War Tensions (1952–1958)
15. Appeals to the Near and Middle East: Implications of the Communications Studies Along the Soviet Periphery
16. Attitudes Toward Various Communist Types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
17. Proposal for a Research Project Designed to Promote the Use of Qualitative Analysis in the Social Sciences
18. The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis
19. On the Relation of Analysis to the Situational Factors in Case Studies
20. The Social Research Center on the Campus: Its Significance for the Social Sciences and Its Relations to the University and Society at Large
Appendix 1: T. W. Adorno, “Report on the Work ‘Totalitarian Propaganda in Germany and Italy’ by Siegfried Kracauer, 1–106”
Appendix 2: John Abromeit, “Siegfried Kracauer, and the Early Frankfurt School’s Analysis of Fascism as Right-Wing Populism”
Bibliography
Sources
Index
Info autore
Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a German Jewish social theorist, journalist, and critic. After the Nazis’ accession to power, he left Germany for Paris and emigrated to the United States in 1941. His books include The Mass Ornament, The Salaried Masses, From Caligari to Hitler, and Theory of Film.
Jaeho Kang is an associate professor of communication at Seoul National University.
Graeme Gilloch is a professor of sociology at Lancaster University.
John Abromeit is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.
Riassunto
This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.
Testo aggiuntivo
This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects—some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime—that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society.
