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Author:   Gertrud Koch ,  Jeremy Gaines
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780691049922

ISBN 10:   0691049920
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   16 April 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Preface vii Time Line of Kracauer's Life ix CHAPTER 1 The Early Days: A Biographical Sketch 3 CHAPTER 2 The Early Phenomenology of Modernity and Mass Culture: Of Hotel Lobbies and Detective Novels 11 CHAPTER 3 Surface and Self-Representation: ""The Mass Ornament"" and Die Angestellten 26 CHAPTER 4 Autobiography and Social Biography: Ginster, Georg, and Offenbach 48 CHAPTER 5 Continuity and Mentality: ""From Caligari to Hitler"" 75 CHAPTER 6 Space, Time, and Apparatus: The Optical Medium ""Theory of Film"" 95 CHAPTER 7 At the End: A Philosophy of History and Historiography 114 Notes 121 Bibliography 131 Index 133"

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Koch does an admirable job of providing a greater sense ... of Kracauer's life and work. Implicit in her reevaluation is the understanding that readers, especially on this side of the Atlantic, still have much to discover. -- Noah Isenberg Dissent

Koch does an admirable job of providing a greater sense ... of Kracauer's life and work. Implicit in her reevaluation is the understanding that readers, especially on this side of the Atlantic, still have much to discover. -- Noah Isenberg, Dissent

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Gertrud Koch is Professor of Film and Television at the Ruhr-University in Bochum and author of numerous books and papers on film and visual representation.

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