Siegfried Kracauer : an introduction / Gertrud Koch ; translated by Jeremy Gaines.

By:

Koch, Gertrud, 1949-

Contributor(s):

Gaines, Jeremy

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1400812399
9781400812394
9781400823642
1400823641

Uniform titles:

Kracauer zur Einfuḧrung. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Siegfried Kracauer.DDC classification:

834/ .912 21

LOC classification:

PT2621.R135 Z7613 2000eb

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02.01

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Contents:

Time Line of Kracauer's Life -- The Early Days : A Biographical Sketch -- The Early Phenomenology of Modernity and Mass Culture : Of Hotel Lobbies and Detective Novels -- Surface and Self-Representation : "The Mass Ornament" and Die Angestellten -- Autobiography and Social Biography : Ginster, Georg, and Offenbach -- Continuity and Mentality : "From Caligari to Hitler" -- Space, Time, and Apparatus : The Optical Medium "Theory of Film" -- At the End : A Philosophy of History and Historiography.

Summary: "Gertrud Koch has written a most lucid and much-needed analytical introduction to the diverse work of Siegfried Kracauer. Her study is brief yet comprehensive, both precise and incisive, deferent to previous scholarship yet never derivative. Koch's book is decidedly original in its sensitivity to recurrent metaphors (especially spatial images) that provide crucial points of orientation and focus throughout Kracauer's complex oeuvre."--Eric Rentschler, Harvard University "Gertrud Koch's probing, sensitive, and demanding study of the work of Siegfried Kracauer is the first such sustained analysis of the wide range of Kracauer's writings in any language. The book represents the state of the art of scholarship on Kracauer, fully conversant with the extensive published works, the fascinating unpublished archival holdings in Marbach, and the wide range of secondary Kracauer literature in both German and English."--Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132) and index.

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"Gertrud Koch has written a most lucid and much-needed analytical introduction to the diverse work of Siegfried Kracauer. Her study is brief yet comprehensive, both precise and incisive, deferent to previous scholarship yet never derivative. Koch's book is decidedly original in its sensitivity to recurrent metaphors (especially spatial images) that provide crucial points of orientation and focus throughout Kracauer's complex oeuvre."--Eric Rentschler, Harvard University "Gertrud Koch's probing, sensitive, and demanding study of the work of Siegfried Kracauer is the first such sustained analysis of the wide range of Kracauer's writings in any language. The book represents the state of the art of scholarship on Kracauer, fully conversant with the extensive published works, the fascinating unpublished archival holdings in Marbach, and the wide range of secondary Kracauer literature in both German and English."--Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University.

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