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Soziologie Als Wissenschaft - Eine Erkenntnistheroretische Untersuchung (Hardcover): Siegfried Kracauer Soziologie Als Wissenschaft - Eine Erkenntnistheroretische Untersuchung (Hardcover)
Siegfried Kracauer
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer; Edited by John Abromeit, Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his contemporaries and colleagues associated with the Frankfurt School. This book brings together a broad selection of Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from studies of totalitarian propaganda written in the 1930s to wartime work on Nazi newsreels and anti-Semitism through to examinations of American and Soviet political messaging in the early Cold War period. These varied texts illuminate the interplay among politics, mass culture, and the media, and they encompass Kracauer's core concerns: the individual and the masses, the conditions of cultural production, and the critique of modernity. The introduction and afterword explore the significance of Kracauer's contributions to critical theory, film and media studies, and the analysis of political communication both in his era and the present day. At a time when demagoguery and bigotry loom over world politics, Kracauer's inquiries into topics such as the widespread appeal of fascist propaganda and the relationship of new media forms and technologies to authoritarianism are strikingly relevant.

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer; Translated by Gwenda David, Eric Mosbacher
R723 R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Save R45 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris. Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer insists that Offenbach's productions must be understood as more than glittering distractions. The fantasy realms of such operettas as La Belle Helene were as one with the unreality of Napoleon III's imperial masquerade, but they also made a mockery of the pomp and pretense surrounding the apparatuses of power. At the same time, Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and corruption of the times. This edition includes Kracauer's preface to the original German edition as well as a critical foreword by Gertrud Koch.

From Caligari to Hitler - A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer From Caligari to Hitler - A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer; Introduction by Leonardo Quaresima
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer's scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.

Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication (Hardcover): Siegfried Kracauer Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication (Hardcover)
Siegfried Kracauer; Edited by John Abromeit, Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch
R3,357 Discovery Miles 33 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his contemporaries and colleagues associated with the Frankfurt School. This book brings together a broad selection of Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from studies of totalitarian propaganda written in the 1930s to wartime work on Nazi newsreels and anti-Semitism through to examinations of American and Soviet political messaging in the early Cold War period. These varied texts illuminate the interplay among politics, mass culture, and the media, and they encompass Kracauer's core concerns: the individual and the masses, the conditions of cultural production, and the critique of modernity. The introduction and afterword explore the significance of Kracauer's contributions to critical theory, film and media studies, and the analysis of political communication both in his era and the present day. At a time when demagoguery and bigotry loom over world politics, Kracauer's inquiries into topics such as the widespread appeal of fascist propaganda and the relationship of new media forms and technologies to authoritarianism are strikingly relevant.

Soziologie Als Wissenschaft - Eine Erkenntnistheroretische Untersuchung (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Soziologie Als Wissenschaft - Eine Erkenntnistheroretische Untersuchung (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Angestellten (German, Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Die Angestellten (German, Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Theory of Film - The Redemption of Physical Reality (Paperback, Revised edition): Siegfried Kracauer Theory of Film - The Redemption of Physical Reality (Paperback, Revised edition)
Siegfried Kracauer
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"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

Theory Of Film - The Redemption Of Physical Reality (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Theory Of Film - The Redemption Of Physical Reality (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History - The Last Things Before the Last (Paperback, New edition): Siegfried Kracauer History - The Last Things Before the Last (Paperback, New edition)
Siegfried Kracauer; Introduction by Paul Oskar Kristeller (Columbia University, USA)
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main intellectual preoccupation during the last years of his life was the relation between past and present, and the relation between histories in different levels of generality. Philosophy is concerned with the last things while history seeks to explain 'the last things before the last.' One after another he examined various theories of history and exposed their strengths and weaknesses. Well written and cogently argued." --Library Journal This edition features a new introduction by editor Paul Oskar Kristeller of Columbia University.

Theory Of Film - The Redemption Of Physical Reality (Hardcover): Siegfried Kracauer Theory Of Film - The Redemption Of Physical Reality (Hardcover)
Siegfried Kracauer
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Salaried Masses - Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer The Salaried Masses - Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer; Introduction by Inka Mulder-Bach; Translated by Quintin Hoare
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment-or the "distraction industries," as Kracauer put it-but, only three years later, were to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste. Drawing on conversations, newspapers, adverts and personal correspondence, he charts the bland horror of the everyday. In the process he succeeds in writing not just a prescient account of the declining days of the Weimar Republic, but also a path-breaking exercise in the sociology of culture which has sharp relevance for today.

The Mass Ornament - Weimar Essays (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer The Mass Ornament - Weimar Essays (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer; Edited by Thomas Y. Levin
R1,165 R1,097 Discovery Miles 10 970 Save R68 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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--their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture, and the relation between the group and the individual, Kracauer explores a kaleidoscope of topics: shopping arcades, the cinema, bestsellers and their readers, photography, dance, hotel lobbies, Kafka, the Bible, and boredom. For Kracauer, the most revelatory facets of modern life in the West lie on the surface, in the ephemeral and the marginal. Of special fascination to him is the United States, where he eventually settled after fleeing Germany and whose culture he sees as defined almost exclusively by "the ostentatious display of surface."

With these essays, written in the 1920s and early 1930s and edited by the author in 1963, Kracauer was the first to demonstrate that studying the everyday world of the masses can bring great rewards. "The Mass Ornament" today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary essays continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.

In his introduction, Thomas Levin situates Kracauer in a turbulent age, illuminates the forces that influenced him--including his friendships with Walter Benjamin, TheodorAdorno, and other Weimar intellectuals--and provides the context necessary for understanding his ideas. Until now, Kracauer has been known primarily for his writings on the cinema. This volume brings us the full scope of his gifts as one of the most wide-ranging and penetrating interpreters of modern life.

Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings - Essays on Film and Popular Culture (Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings - Essays on Film and Popular Culture (Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer; Edited by Johannes Von Moltke, Kristy Rawson; Afterword by Martin Jay
R866 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R72 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Siegfried Kracauer (1889OCo1966), 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 arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950s. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent (r)migr(r) intellect

Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings - Essays on Film and Popular Culture (Hardcover, New): Siegfried Kracauer Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings - Essays on Film and Popular Culture (Hardcover, New)
Siegfried Kracauer; Edited by Johannes Von Moltke, Kristy Rawson; Afterword by Martin Jay
R2,252 Discovery Miles 22 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Siegfried Kracauer (1889OCo1966), 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 arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950s. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent (r)migr(r) intellect

Georg (German, Paperback): Siegfried Kracauer Georg (German, Paperback)
Siegfried Kracauer
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Offenbach and the Paris of His Time (Hardcover): Siegfried Kracauer Offenbach and the Paris of His Time (Hardcover)
Siegfried Kracauer
R1,427 Discovery Miles 14 270 Out of stock
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