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Author: Siegfried Kracauer ,
John Abromeit ,
Jaeho Kang ,
Graeme Gilloch
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Volume: 80
ISBN: 9780231158961
ISBN 10: 0231158963
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 17 May 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Highly recommended book. -- Anna Maria Polidori * Articles and more... * A landmark achievement in Kracauer scholarship, this collection presents many of the formerly neglected and lesser-known writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest social and cultural critics. Augmenting Kracauer's reputation as a preeminent film scholar, this book demonstrates his equally impressive gifts as an incisive interpreter of mass media. -- Noah Isenberg, editor of <i>Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna</i> Painstakingly assembled and carefully annotated by Kang, Gilloch, and Abromeit, this wide-ranging collection of Siegfried Kracauer's analyses of mid-twentieth-century politics and culture reveals a hitherto ignored dimension of his remarkable legacy. Perhaps even more significantly, it still has much to teach us about the uncannily similar challenges we face today. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects-some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime-that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society. -- Iain Macdonald, Universite de Montreal
A landmark achievement in Kracauer scholarship, this collection presents many of the formerly neglected and lesser-known writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest social and cultural critics. Augmenting his reputation as a preeminent film scholar, here Kracauer demonstrates his equally impressive gifts as an incisive interpreter of mass media. -- Noah Isenberg, editor of <i>Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna</i> Painstakingly assembled and carefully annotated by Kang, Gilloch, and Abromeit, this wide-ranging collection of Siegfried Kracauer's analyses of mid-twentieth-century politics and culture reveals a hitherto ignored dimension of his remarkable legacy. Perhaps even more significantly, it still has much to teach us about the uncannily similar challenges we face today. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects-some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime-that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society. -- Iain Macdonald, Universite de Montreal
A landmark achievement in Kracauer scholarship, this collection presents many of the formerly neglected and lesser-known writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest social and cultural critics. Augmenting his reputation as a preeminent film scholar, here Kracauer demonstrates his equally impressive gifts as an incisive interpreter of mass media. -- Noah Isenberg, editor of <i>Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna</i>
Highly recommended book. -- Anna Maria Polidori * Articles and more... * [I] found Kracauer's discussion of the importance of qualitative analysis to be very stimulating - and highly relevant to current challenges in assessing political dynamics. -- Mike Makin-Waite * Process North * A landmark achievement in Kracauer scholarship, this collection presents many of the formerly neglected and lesser-known writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest social and cultural critics. Augmenting Kracauer's reputation as a preeminent film scholar, this book demonstrates his equally impressive gifts as an incisive interpreter of mass media. -- Noah Isenberg, editor of <i>Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna</i> Painstakingly assembled and carefully annotated by Kang, Gilloch, and Abromeit, this wide-ranging collection of Siegfried Kracauer's analyses of mid-twentieth-century politics and culture reveals a hitherto ignored dimension of his remarkable legacy. Perhaps even more significantly, it still has much to teach us about the uncannily similar challenges we face today. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects-some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime-that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society. -- Iain Macdonald, Universite de Montreal
A landmark achievement in Kracauer scholarship, this collection presents many of the formerly neglected and lesser-known writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest social and cultural critics. Augmenting Kracauer's reputation as a preeminent film scholar, this book demonstrates his equally impressive gifts as an incisive interpreter of mass media. -- Noah Isenberg, editor of <i>Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna</i> Painstakingly assembled and carefully annotated by Kang, Gilloch, and Abromeit, this wide-ranging collection of Siegfried Kracauer's analyses of mid-twentieth-century politics and culture reveals a hitherto ignored dimension of his remarkable legacy. Perhaps even more significantly, it still has much to teach us about the uncannily similar challenges we face today. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects-some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime-that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society. -- Iain Macdonald, Universite de Montreal
Author Information
Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a German Jewish social theorist, journalist, and critic. After the Nazis’ accession to power, he left Germany for Paris and emigrated to the United States in 1941. His books include The Mass Ornament, The Salaried Masses, From Caligari to Hitler, and Theory of Film. Jaeho Kang is an associate professor of communication at Seoul National University. Graeme Gilloch is a professor of sociology at Lancaster University. John Abromeit is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.
