Introduction: Kracauer's Legacies / Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von Moltke -- Patterns of Reception. This Pen for Hire: Siegfried Kracauer as American Cultural Critic / Noah Isenberg -- Manhattan Crossroads: Theory of Film between the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectuals / Johannes von Moltke -- Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies / Eric Rentschler -- Highway Through the Void: The Film Theorist and the Film Actress Looking after Kracauer / Heide Schlüpmann -- Kracauer's Photography Essay: Dot Matrix General (An-)Archive Film Lutz Koepnick / Miriam Bratu Hansen -- In Kracauer's Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image. Siegfried Kracauer's Two Art Histories / Elizabeth Otto -- Siegfried Kracauer's Architectures / Claire Zimmerman -- "Dioramas of a New World": Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture / Kerstin Barndt -- Kracauer and Sound: Reading with an Anxious Ear / Theodore F. Rippey -- Literary Genres. "Written by Himself": Siegfried Kracauer's "Auto-biographical" Novels / Christian Rogowski -- The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin / Andreas Huyssen -- Last Things Before the Last: History, Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethics. On Natural History: Concepts of History in Adorno and Kracauer / Christina Gerhardt -- The "Passage" and the "Mission of Film": Kracauer's Investigations into Modern Realms of Experience / |