Cinema and experience : Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno /

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 explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:Weimar and now ; 44.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Kracauer. Film, medium of a disintegrating world ; Curious Americanism
  • Benjamin. Actuality, antinomies ; Aura: the appropriation of a concept ; Mistaking the moon for a ball ; Micky-maus ; Play-form of second nature
  • Adorno. The question of film aesthetics
  • Kracauer in exile. Theory of film.