Siegfried Kracauer's American writings essays on film and popular culture / Siegfried Kracauer ; edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson ; with an afterword by Martin Jay.
| Author/creator | Kracauer, Siegfried |
| Other author | Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966- |
| Other author | Rawson, Kristy, 1963- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; 45 |
| Contents | Between Hollywood and Europe: a cultural critic in New York. Why France liked our films (1942) -- Hollywood's terror films (1946) -- Jean Vigo (1947) -- The revolt against rationality (1947) -- Jewish culture (1947) -- Filming the subconscious (1948) -- Psychiatry for everything and everybody (1948) -- Those movies with a message (1948) -- National types as Hollywood presents them (1949) -- The mirror up to nature (1949) -- Preston Sturges, or laughter betrayed (1950) -- Art today (1961) -- About the state of the humanities -- A statement on the humanistic approach -- Talk with Teddie (1960) -- A critic at large I: film reviews. An American experiment (1941) -- Dumbo (1941) -- Film notes from Hollywood (1941) -- A few American films (1941) -- William Wyler's new Bette Davis film (1941) -- Flaherty, the land (1942) -- For whom the bell tolls (1943) -- Pais? (1948) -- The decent German (1949) -- The eternal Jew (1956) -- A few notes on The connection (1961) -- A critic at large II: book reviews. In Eisenstein's workshop (1943) -- The Russian director (1949) -- The movie colony (1942) -- A lady of valor (1947) -- The Teutonic mind (1948) -- Consciousness, free and spontaneous (1948) -- Indologian holiday (1948) -- Portrait in film (1948) -- Total teaching -- Pictorial deluge (1950) -- Movie mirror (1950) -- Reflexion faite (1952) -- Toward a theory of film. Stage vs. screen acting (1950) -- The photographic approach (1951) -- Silent film comedy (1951) -- The found story and the episode (1956) -- Letter to film 56 (1956) -- Afterword: Kracauer, the magical nominalist / Martin Jay. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | In English with some essays translated from German. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011046517 |
| ISBN | 9780520271821 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520271823 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520271838 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520271831 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520952003 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0520952006 (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |