The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America

by Johannes von Moltke

Book Overview

During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown in the United States and had yet to write his best-known books, From Caligari to Hitler and Theory of Film. Johannes von Moltke details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520290941
• ISBN13: 9780520290945
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"