The mass ornament : Weimar essays /
Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on modern society make their long-awaited appearance in English. This book is a celebration of the masses--t...
| Основен автор: | Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. |
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| Други автори: | Levin, Thomas Y. (Translator, Editor, Author of introduction, etc.) |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English German |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1995.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction / Thomas Y. Levin
- Lead-in : natural geometry. Lad and bull ; Two planes ; Analysis of a city map
- External and internal objects. Photography ; Travel and dance ; The mass ornament ; On bestsellers and their audience ; The biography as an art form of the new bourgeoisie ; Revolt of the middle classes ; Those who wait
- Constructions. The group as bearer of ideas ; The hotel lobby
- Perspectives. The Bible in German ; Catholicism and relativism ; The crisis of science ; Georg Simmel ; On the writings of Walter Benjamin ; Franz Kafka
- The Movies. Calico-world ; The little shopgirls go to the movies ; Film 1928 ; Cult of distraction
- Fadeaway : toward the vanishing point. Boredom ; Farewell to the Linden Arcade.