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Hansen, Miriam 1949-2011

Cinema and experience Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Miriam Bratu Hansen - XXIII, 380 Seiten - Weimar and now: German cultural criticism 44 . - Weimar and now 44 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Kracauer. Film, medium of a disintegrating world -- Curious Americanism -- Benjamin. Actuality, antinomies -- Aura: the appropriation of a concept -- Mistaking the moon for a ball -- Micky-maus -- Room-for-play -- Adorno. The question of film aesthetics -- Kracauer in exile. Theory of film.

Kracauer. Film, medium of a disintegrating world ; Curious Americanism -- Benjamin. Actuality, antinomies ; Aura: the appropriation of a concept ; Mistaking the moon for a ball ; Micky-maus ; Play-form of second nature -- Adorno. The question of film aesthetics -- Kracauer in exile. Theory of film

ISBN: 9780520265592 cloth : alk. paper 9780520265608 pbk. : alk. paper

Standard No.: 9780520265608

LCCN: 2011017754

Subjects--Personal Names:
Kracauer, Siegfried 1889-1966 --Criticism and interpretation
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 --Criticism and interpretation
Adorno, Theodor W 1903-1969

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion pictures

Subjects--Index Terms: Class of Spring 2004 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow Fellow

LC Class. No.: PN1994

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4309 791 100