{"product_id":"siegfried-kracauers-american-writings-9780520271838","title":"Siegfried Kracauers American Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. This book assembles essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that he wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fine work.\" -- Noah Isenberg Film Comment \"There is an urgency in these pieces to convey exactly how powerful what he called \"those movies with a message\" could be.\" Los Angeles Review Of Books \"American Writings shows that Kracauer was ... a cultural critic keenly attuned to the interplay of culture and politics as they collided on the cinema screen.\" Times Literary Supplement (TLS) \"This edition is quite informative... [The editors' input] smoothly guides through the many facets of this important character.\" -- Alexander Ebert popcultureshelf.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Notes on the Edition  Acknowledgments   Introduction: Affinities   Part I. A Cultural Critic in New York  1. Why France Liked Our Films (1942)  2. Hollywood's Terror Films (1946)  3. Jean Vigo (1947)  4. The Revolt against Rationality (1947)  5. On Jewish Culture (1947)  6. Filming the Subconscious (1948)  7. Psychiatry for Everything and Everybody (1948)  8. Those Movies with a Message (1948)  9. National Types as Hollywood Presents Them (1949)  10. The Mirror Up to Nature (1949)  11. Preston Sturges, or Laughter Betrayed (1950)  12. Art Today (1961)  13. About the State of the Humanities  14. A Statement on the Humanistic Approach  15. Talk with Teddie (1960)   Part II. Film Reviews  16. An American Experiment (1941)  17. Dumbo (1941)  18. Film Notes from Hollywood (1941)  19. A Few American Films (1941)  20. William Wyler's New Bette Davis Film (1941)  21. Flaherty, The Land (1942)  22. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)  23. Paisan (1948)  24. The Decent German (1949)  25. The Eternal Jew (1956)  26. A Few Notes on The Connection (1961)   Part III. Book Reviews  27. In Eisenstein's Workshop (1943)  28. The Russian Director (1949)  29. The Movie Colony (1942)  30. A Lady of Valor (1947)  31. The Teutonic Mind (1948)  32. Consciousness, Free and Spontaneous (1948)  33. Indologian Holiday (1948)  34. Portrait in Film (1948)  35. Total Teaching (1949)  36. Pictorial Deluge (1950)  37. Movie Mirror (1950)  38. Reflexion faite (1952)   Part IV. Toward a Theory of Film  39. Stage vs. Screen Acting (1950)  40. The Photographic Approach (1951)  41. Silent Film Comedy (1951)  42. The Found Story and the Episode (1956)  43. Letter to film 56 (1956)   Afterword: Kracauer, the Magical Nominalist \/ Martin Jay   Notes  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402856145239,"sku":"9780520271838","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520271838.jpg?v=1730481694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/siegfried-kracauers-american-writings-9780520271838","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}