Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture Volume 45

by Siegfried Kracauer

Book Overview

Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271831
• ISBN13: 9780520271838
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"