Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into 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. This work remains a tribute to popular culture and its interdisciplinary essays continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and 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, Theodor Adorno, and other Weimar intellectuals - and provides the context necessary for understanding his ideas.
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1.兩個24歲姑娘的照片 film diva的照片:是活著的,有魔力的,是當下的,每個人都可以認齣來 祖母的照片:祖母的所有同齡人contemporaries都過世瞭,僅僅是照片不足以reconstruct祖母,沒有什麼可以絕對證明這是祖母的照片,會不會是一個很像祖母的朋友?不屬於我們的時代,smi...
評分1.兩個24歲姑娘的照片 film diva的照片:是活著的,有魔力的,是當下的,每個人都可以認齣來 祖母的照片:祖母的所有同齡人contemporaries都過世瞭,僅僅是照片不足以reconstruct祖母,沒有什麼可以絕對證明這是祖母的照片,會不會是一個很像祖母的朋友?不屬於我們的時代,smi...
評分《大眾裝飾》成文於1927年,其中最為精彩的無疑是剋拉考爾對於Tiller Girls踢腿舞的分析和描寫。這種舞蹈形式大約産生於19世紀末,由外形被嚴格選拔的、身高身材高度相似並在舞蹈中身穿相同著裝的年輕女性組成,她們整齊劃一地站成一排或圍成圈,不斷做齣相同的舞蹈動作。這種...
評分《大眾裝飾》成文於1927年,其中最為精彩的無疑是剋拉考爾對於Tiller Girls踢腿舞的分析和描寫。這種舞蹈形式大約産生於19世紀末,由外形被嚴格選拔的、身高身材高度相似並在舞蹈中身穿相同著裝的年輕女性組成,她們整齊劃一地站成一排或圍成圈,不斷做齣相同的舞蹈動作。這種...
評分[previously posted on http://affectivepolitics.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/tragedies-and-social-order/ as course assignment] In The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies, Kracauer presents a collection of plots of films and their respective effect on the fictiona...
圖書標籤: 文化研究 Siegfried_Kracauer 現代性 電影 德國 社會學 影人與電影理論 Politics-of-Affects-course
美文和美圖 自留不處理瞭
評分發現得比較晚,但貌似the frankfurt school文筆最好的一位,條理有時不是特彆清晰
評分美文和美圖 自留不處理瞭
評分any objection to love are destroyed by the judgement of a society that has lost love. 我同事說她看瞭一本虐愛小說,男主虐(身&心)女主800章,結果最後一章他倆tm相愛瞭,justify瞭所有violence and reclassify them as “detour” 大眾文化忒好玩兒瞭
評分終於看完瞭,感覺不可避免地要看第二遍。
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