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050	0	4	_aPT2621 _b.C875 2016
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100	1		_aVon Moltke, Johannes, _d1966- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe curious humanist : _bSiegfried Kracauer in America / _cJohannes von Moltke.
260			_aOakland, California : _bNiversity of California Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource.
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory -- _tMetropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York -- _tTotalitarian propaganda -- _tNazi cinema -- _tFreedom from fear? -- _tFrom Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema -- _tAuthoritarian, totalitarian -- _tReframing Caligari: the politics of cinema -- _tTheory of film and the subject of experience -- _tThe curious humanist -- _tHistory and humanist subjectivity -- _tEpilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies.
520	0		_a"Siegfried Kracauer is today considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. During the Weimar Republic, he established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, now often ranked alongside his friends Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown in the United States and had yet to write his best-known books, From Caligari to Hitler and Theory of Film. In this study, Johannes von Moltke details the intricate ways in which the American intellectual and political context shaped Kracauer's seminal contributions to film studies and shows how Kracauer's American writings helped shape the emergent discipline in turn. Through archival sources and detailed readings of Kracauer's work, von Moltke reconstructs what it means to consider Siegfried Kracauer as the New York Intellectual he became when he settled in Manhattan for the last quarter century of his life. Here, he found an institutional home at the MoMA film library, contributed to communications and propaganda research under the aegis of the Rockefeller Foundation, and published in the influential "little magazines" of the New York Intellectuals. Adopting a transatlantic perspective on Kracauer's work, von Moltke demonstrates how he pursued questions that animated contemporary critics from Adorno to Hannah Arendt, from Clement Greenberg to Robert Warshow: questions about the origins of totalitarianism and the authoritarian personality, about high and low culture, about liberalism, democracy, and what it means to be human. From these wide-flung conversations and debates, Kracauer's own voice emerges as that of an incisive cultural critic invested in a humanist understanding of the cinema."--Provided by publisher.
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600	1	0	_aKracauer, Siegfried, _d1889-1966 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aFilm critics _zGermany _vBiography.
650		0	_aMotion pictures _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aMotion pictures _xHistory.
650		0	_aMotion pictures _zGermany _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell