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Record Nr.

UNISA996248274703316

Autore

Hansen Miriam <1949-2011.>

Titolo

Cinema and experience [[electronic resource] ] : Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno / / Miriam Bratu Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613291851

1-283-29185-1

0-520-95013-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; ; 44

Classificazione

AP 45400

Disciplina

791.4309

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Film, Medium of a Disintegrating World -- 2. Curious Americanism -- 3. Actuality, Antinomies -- 4. Aura. The Appropriation of a Concept -- 5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball -- 6. Micky-Maus -- 7. Play-Form of Second Nature -- 8. The Question of Film Aesthetics -- 9. Theory of Film -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960's. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impressive archive of known and, in the case of Kracauer, less known materials and reveals surprising perspectives on canonic texts, including Benjamin's artwork essay. Her lucid analysis extrapolates from these writings the contours of a theory of cinema and experience that speaks to questions being posed anew as moving image culture evolves in response to digital technology.