{"product_id":"cinema-and-experience-9780520265592","title":"Cinema and Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried 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 their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This magisterial book is a gift... There is no other study like it.\" Artforum [Hansen's] reader is amply rewarded by the rich suggestiveness and expansive quality of her insights... A crowning achievement.\" Bookforum \"Cinema and Experience aptly fuses historiography and theory.\" Cineaste \"A crowning achievement in its own right.\" -- Noah Isenberg Bookforum \"Cinema and Experience aptly fuses historiography and theory.\" -- Roy Grundmann Cineaste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations  Part I. Kracauer 1. Film, Medium of a Disintegrating World 2. Curious Americanism  Part II. Benjamin 3. Actuality, Antinomies 4. Aura: The Appropriation of a Concept 5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball 6. Micky-Maus 7. Room-for-Play  Part III. Adorno 8. The Question of Film Aesthetics  Part IV. Kracauer in Exile 9. Theory of Film  Notes Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402843726167,"sku":"9780520265592","price":59.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cinema-and-experience-9780520265592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}