LEADER 04771cam a2200601 i 4500001 263327 005 20240621232029.0 008 160218t20162016caua b 001 0beng 010 2016008379 020 9780520290938 |q(cloth ; |qalkaline paper) 020 0520290933 |q(cloth ; |qalkaline paper) 020 9780520290945 |q(paperback) 020 0520290941 |q(paperback) 020 |z9780520964853 |q(ebook) 024 8 40026200585 035 (OCoLC)ocn923795984 035 263327 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 CU-S/DLC |beng |erda |cSTF |dCUS |dDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dBDX |dOCLCF |dCOO |dGZN |dZCU |dYUS |dPUL |dHEBIS |dLHM 050 00 PT2621.R135 |bZ94 2016 100 1 Von Moltke, Johannes, |d1966- |eauthor. 245 14 The curious humanist : |bSiegfried Kracauer in America / |cJohannes von Moltke. 264 1 Oakland, California : |bUniversity of California Press, |c[2016] 264 4 |c©2016 300 xi, 317 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-302) and index. 505 0 Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory -- Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York -- Totalitarian propaganda -- Nazi cinema -- Freedom from fear? -- From Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema -- Authoritarian, totalitarian -- Reframing Caligari: the politics of cinema -- Theory of film and the subject of experience -- The curious humanist -- History and humanist subjectivity -- Epilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies. 520 "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. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Kracauer, Siegfried, |d1889-1966 |xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 Film critics |zGermany |vBiography. 650 0 Motion pictures |xPolitical aspects. 650 0 Motion pictures |xHistory. 650 0 Motion pictures |zGermany |xHistory. 600 17 Kracauer, Siegfried, |d1889-1966. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00015229 650 7 Film critics. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00924264 650 7 Motion pictures. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 Motion pictures |xPolitical aspects. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027353 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 600 17 |0(DE-588)118565877 |0(DE-603)086906909Kracauer, Siegfried |d08.02.1889-26.11.1966. |2gnd 650 7 |0(DE-588)4071216-3 |0(DE-603)085200409Filmtheorie. |2gnd 650 7 |0(DE-588)4045791-6 |0(DE-603)08512821XPhilosophie. |2gnd 651 7 |0(DE-588)4042011-5 |0(DE-603)085115940New York, NY. |2gnd 655 7 Biography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 852 0 |bstacks |hPT2621.R135 |iZ94 2016