Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism)

by SiegfriedKracauer (Author)

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  2012

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  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. This book assembles essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that he wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.