Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture: 45 (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism) - Hardcover

Kracauer, Siegfried

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520271823 ISBN 13: 9780520271821

Verlag: University of California Press, 2012

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Críticas:

"[A] fine work." -- Noah Isenberg Film Comment "There is an urgency in these pieces to convey exactly how powerful what he called "those movies with a message" could be." Los Angeles Review Of Books "American Writings shows that Kracauer was ... a cultural critic keenly attuned to the interplay of culture and politics as they collided on the cinema screen." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "This edition is quite informative... [The editors' input] smoothly guides through the many facets of this important character." -- Alexander Ebert popcultureshelf.com

Reseña del editor:

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, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950s. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent emigre intellectual.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0520271823
• ISBN 13: 9780520271821
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Von Moltke Johannes, Rawson Kristy