Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. This item is unavailable.Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality

1965. First Edition Thus. 364 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages are mildly tanned. Mild cracking to hinges, however binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Mild creasing to covers and spine. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Mild scratching and marking to covers.

"Kracauer's profound theoretical investigation revealed film as the form that best captured the new modes of experience that characterize modernity. Miriam Hansen's brilliant introduction chronicles the work's genesis and transformation through Kracauer's conversations with Adorno and Benjamin, his flight from the Nazis, and his uneasy assimilation into the Cold-War United States."--Tom Gunning, University of Chicago

"Just as new translations of Kracauer's early works have begun to reveal aspects of his intellectual project previously unavailable to readers of English, this most welcome new edition of Kracauer's magnum opus of media aesthetics will cast a new interpretative light on his later work, thanks especially to Miriam Hansen's highly illuminating introductory essay."--Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University