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Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
Von Moltke Phd, Dr. Johannes, Gemünden, Gerd
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Description for Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer's body of work Num Pages: 324 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology—including pieces from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schlüpmann—brings together literary and film scholars, historians and art historians, sociologists, and architects to address the scope and current relevance of a body of work dedicated to investigating all aspects of modernism and modernity. The contributors approach Kracauer's writings from a variety of angles, some by placing them in dialogue with his contemporaries ... Read more
Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology—including pieces from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schlüpmann—brings together literary and film scholars, historians and art historians, sociologists, and architects to address the scope and current relevance of a body of work dedicated to investigating all aspects of modernism and modernity. The contributors approach Kracauer's writings from a variety of angles, some by placing them in dialogue with his contemporaries ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472071678
SKU
V9780472071678
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About Von Moltke Phd, Dr. Johannes, Gemünden, Gerd
Gerd Gemünden is the Sherman Fairchild Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College, where he teaches in the Department of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature. Johannes von Moltke is an Associate Professor of German Studies and Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan.
Reviews for Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
This is the most current English-language introduction to the full range of Kracauer's work." — J.O. Wipplinger, North Carolina State University, Choice "The total of sixteen contributions... present a wonderful variety and cover the full breadth of Kracauer’s writing. These range from the city vignettes that Andreas Huyssen compares to the prose scintillations in Benjamin’s One-Way Street, to Kracauer’s ... Read more