Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer - Softcover

Von Moltke, Johannes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472051679 ISBN 13: 9780472051670

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 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.

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Review:

"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 two novels, to his sociology of the 'salaried masses,' his writings for newspapers and magazines-on architecture, media, and on popular entertainment in Weimar Germany-to his books on film in English, and the posthumous book on historiography." - Monatshefte

About the Author:

Gerd Gemunden 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0472051679
• ISBN 13: 9780472051670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324