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UNINA9910789923203321 |
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Kracauer Siegfried |
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Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings : Essays on Film and Popular Culture / / Siegfried Kracauer; Johannes von Moltke, Kristy Rawson |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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1-280-49209-0 |
9786613587329 |
0-520-95200-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; ; 45 |
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Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation |
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Theorie des Films |
Motion pictures |
Motion pictures -- History |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Notes on This Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Affinities -- part I. A Cultural Critic in New York -- part II. Film Reviews -- part III. Book Reviews -- part IV. Toward a Theory of Film -- Afterword: Kracauer, the Magical Nominalist -- Notes -- Index |
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Siegfried 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. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish |
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culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950's. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré intellectual. |
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UNIORUON00032332 |
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OSMAN AGA |
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Der Gefangen der Giauren : Die abenteuerlischen Schicksale des Dolmetschers 'Osman Aga von Temeschwar, von ihm selbst erzahlt / Ubersetzt, eingel. und erklart von Richard F. Kreutel und Otto Spies |
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Graz, : Styria, 1962 233 p., : tav.rip. f.t. ; 17 cm |
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Impero ottomano - Storia - Fonti - Sec. 17 |
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