Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle o...

Correspondence

Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century.¿ While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer's writings on film, photography...

Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings

Cinema and Experience

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 explore...

Briefwechsel 7. Theodor W. Adorno/Siegfried Kracauer. Briefwechsel 1923-1966

Unter den großen Briefwechseln Theodor W. Adornos ist der mit Siegfried Kracauer mit Sicherheit der intimste. Der Nachhall einer leidenschaftlichen Freundschaft, die beide von Beginn an miteinander verband - Adorno war 15 oder 16 Jahre a...

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The Politics of Imagination Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge

This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and...

The Mass Ornament

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth centurys most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on modern society make their long-awaited appearance in Engli...

Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication

Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works...

Notes to Literature

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjec...

Curious Humanist

During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded re...

Film After Film

One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, inclu...

Culture in the Anteroom

Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary antho...

Theory of Film

This significant study is certain to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come. It demonstrates once and for all that motion pictures differ radically from the traditional arts, and that good plays or novels rarely make good films. Dr. Kracauer is concerned with film as a photographic medium uniquely equipped to capture and reveal the everyday world as it exists before our eyes. 'If film is an art,' he writes, 'it is an art with a difference. It fulfills itself in rendering 'the ripple of leaves, ' . . . street crowds, involuntary gestures, and other fleeting impressions.' Dr. Kracauer covers every aspect of black-and-white film. He discusses its background in still photography, the problems inherent in historical and fantasy films, the novel as a cinematic form, experimental films, documentaries, the role of the actor, the uses of dialogue and sound, the contribution of music, and the part played by the spectator. The final chapter focuses on the wider implications

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris. Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer insists that Offenbach's productions must be understood as more than glittering distractions. The fantasy realms of such operettas as La Belle Helene were as one with the unreality of Napoleon III's imperial masquerade, but they also made a mockery of the pomp and pretense surrounding the apparatuses of power. At the same time, Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that

Die Angestellten

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Das Ornament der Masse

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Straßen in Berlin und anderswo

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Der Detektiv - Roman

"In diesem 1925 abgeschlossenen Text zeigt sich bereits deutlich, was Kracauers ganzes Denken auszeichnet: der Blick des »wunderlichen Realisten« saugt sich gleichsam an den Sachen fest; apokryphe Phänomene, z. B. die banalen Topoi eines ...

Von Caligari zu Hitler

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Salaried Masses

First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Spiritually ...

Theory of Film

Siegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. The book takes its place alongside works in classical film theory by such figures as Bela Balazs, Rudolf Arnheim, and And...

Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfried [Blu-ray]

Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfried [4 CD]

Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfried [3 SACD Hybrid]

Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfried [4 CD]

Siegfried: Drachenherz

Siegfried: Drachenherz [CD]

Siegfried Line

Lead author Karel Margry, with material by Winston Ramsey and Charles P Stacey Editor: Daniel Taylor Text: Approx 63,000 words in main account plus 31,000 word in captions. Up to 700 images including maps, photographs and illustrations. Of these, ...

Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfried [2 DVD]

Siegfried Sassoon

The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling volumes on Sassoon from his biographer and foremost s...

Camp Siegfried

I'm a killer I told you I told you that all along You were the dummy to believe I could ever be anything else Two teenagers fall in love on Long Island. There's fun and dancing, sports and team spirit, there's the woods and beer and physical hard ...

Siegfried Sassoon

The authorized biography of a literary legend, written with unique access to all of Sassoon's previously unseen papers. â??Unmistakably the best thing anybody has ever written about Sassoonâ?? D. J. Taylor, Independent