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- Title
- The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
- Book Title
- The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
- ISBN
- 067455163X
- EAN
- 9780674551633
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 1995-06-30
- Release Title
- The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
- Artist
- Kracauer, Siegfried
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- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Anthropology
- Item Weight
- 581 g
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an incisive theorist of film. In this volume his finest writings on modern society make their long-awaited appearance in 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. The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary essays continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, 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. Until now, Kracauer has been known primarily for his writings on the cinema. This volume brings us the full scope of his gifts as one of the most wide-ranging and penetrating interpreters of modern life.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674551633
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Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
Publication Year
1995
Subject
Anthropology
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
235 mm
Item Weight
581 g
Item Width
156 mm
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United States
Translator
Thomas Y. Levin
Topic
Literary Theory
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