The curious humanist : Siegfried Kracauer in America
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...
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | English |
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Oakland, California : University of California Press,
[2016]
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Schlagworte: | Film critics Motion pictures Kracauer, Siegfried New York, NY Filmtheorie Philosophie USA Exil |
Umfang: | xi, 317 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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