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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 their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s.

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"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 "A crowning achievement in its own right." -- Noah Isenberg Bookforum

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Preface 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

Cinema and Experience Siegfried Kracauer Walter

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 04/10/2011
      ISBN13: 9780520265608, 978-0520265608
      ISBN10: 0520265602
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      Book Synopsis
      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 their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s.

      Trade Review
      "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 "A crowning achievement in its own right." -- Noah Isenberg Bookforum

      Table of Contents
      Preface 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

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