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Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
Edited by Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von MoltkeCulture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology---including pieces from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schlüpmann---brings together literary and film scholars, historians and art historians, sociologists, and architects to address the scope and current relevance of a body of work dedicated to investigating all aspects of modernism and modernity. The contributors approach Kracauer's writings from a variety of angles, some by placing them in dialogue with his contemporaries in Weimar Germany and the New York Intellectuals of the 1940s and '50s; others by exploring relatively unknown facets of Kracauer's oeuvre by considering his contributions to architectural history, the history of radio as well as other new media, and museum and exhibition culture.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Kracauer's Legacies
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PATTERNS OF RECEPTION
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This Pen for Hire, Siegfried Kracauer as American Cultural Critic
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Manhattan Crossroads, Theory of Film between the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectuals
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Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies
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Highway Through the Void, The Film Theorist and the Film Actress
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LOOKING AFTER KRACAUER
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Kracauer's Photography Essay, Dot Matrix—General (An-)Archive—Film
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In Kracauer's Shadow, Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image
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Siegfried Kracauer's Two Art Histories
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Siegfried Kracauer's Architectures
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“Dioramas of a New World”, Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture
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Kracauer and Sound, Reading with an Anxious Ear
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LITERARY GENRES
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“Written by Himself”, Siegfried Kracauer's “Auto-Biographical” Novels
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The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin
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LAST THINGS BEFORE THE LAST: HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHICS
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On Natural History Concepts of History in Adorno and Kracauer
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The “Passage” and the “Mission of Film”, Kracauer's Investigations into Modern Realms of Experience
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Among Other Things—a Miraculous Realist, Political Perspectives on the Theoretical Entanglement of Cinema and History in Siegfried Kracauer
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The Exile of Modernity, Kracauer's Figurations of the Stranger
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Contributors
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Index
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