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Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction
Gertrud Koch
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Description for Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction
paperback. 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. This work presents an analysis, which covers both Kracauer's best-known publications and previously underexamined texts. Translator(s): Gaines, Jeremy. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228.
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 of famed Frankfurt School critical theorists Jurgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Max Horkheimer. Recently, however, scholars have rediscovered in Kracauer's writings a philosopher, sociologist, and film theorist important beyond his associations--and perhaps one of the most significant cultural critics of the twentieth century. Gertrud Koch advances this Kracauer renaissance with the first-ever critical assessment of his entire ... Read more
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 of famed Frankfurt School critical theorists Jurgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Max Horkheimer. Recently, however, scholars have rediscovered in Kracauer's writings a philosopher, sociologist, and film theorist important beyond his associations--and perhaps one of the most significant cultural critics of the twentieth century. Gertrud Koch advances this Kracauer renaissance with the first-ever critical assessment of his entire ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691049922
SKU
V9780691049922
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About Gertrud Koch
Gertrud Koch is Professor of Film and Television at the Ruhr-University in Bochum and author of numerous books and papers on film and visual representation.
Reviews for Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction
Koch does an admirable job of providing a greater sense ... of Kracauer's life and work. Implicit in her reevaluation is the understanding that readers, especially on this side of the Atlantic, still have much to discover."
Noah Isenberg, Dissent
Noah Isenberg, Dissent