Walter Benjamin and the aesthetics of film /

Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan of the comedies of Adolphe Menjou, Mickey Mouse, and Charlie Chaplin. As an antidote to repressive c...

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Hlavní autor: Mourenza, Daniel (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2020.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvwh8f7d
Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film
  • 2. Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation
  • 3. Film and the Aesthetics of German Fascism
  • 4. Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity
  • 5. Mickey Mouse: Utopian and Barbarian
  • Conclusion: Benjamin's Belated Aktualität
  • Bibliography
  • Index