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Siegfried Kracauer : an introduction

Title
  1. Siegfried Kracauer : an introduction / Gertrud Koch ; translated by Jeremy Gaines.
Published by
  1. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000], ©2000.
Author
  1. Koch, Gertrud, 1949-

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Additional authors
  1. Gaines, Jeremy.
Description
  1. xii, 137 pages; 24 cm
Uniform title
  1. Kracauer zur Einfuḧrung. English
Alternative title
  1. Kracauer zur Einfuḧrung.
Subject
  1. Motion pictures
  2. Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
  3. Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 > Criticism and interpretation
Contents
  1. Time Line of Kracauer's Life -- Ch. 1. The Early Days: A Biographical Sketch -- Ch. 2. The Early Phenomenology of Modernity and Mass Culture: Of Hotel Lobbies and Detective Novels -- Ch. 3. Surface and Self-Representation:"The Mass Ornament" and Die Angestellten -- Ch. 4. Autobiography and Social Biography: Ginster, Georg, and Offenbach -- Ch. 5. Continuity and Mentality: "From Caligari to Hitler" -- Ch. 6. Space, Time, and Apparatus: The Optical Medium "Theory of Film" -- Ch. 7. At the End: A Philosophy of History and Historiography.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132) and index.