Jan Campbell (Guest editor)
This
issue of new formations on Siegfried Kracauer introduces a contemporary
audience to his life and work, drawing on the fields of literary modernism,
Marxism and aesthetics, cultural geography and the city, film studies and
psychoanalysis to illustrate and explore his thinking, both in relation
to modernism and to the post-modern age. The interdisciplinary articles
in this volume move with the spirit of the man, travelling from the surface
phenomenology of Kracauer's early Weimar essays to his later more abstract
works on film and history. The articles provide new readings of familiar
debates as well as original avenues that have been hitherto unexplored.
Contributors: John Allen, Jan Campbell, James Donald, Steve Giles, Graeme Gilloch, Elena Gualtieri, Janet Harbord, Jaeho Kang, Barry Langford, Esther Leslie
Contents:
Jan Campbell Editorial
John Allen The Cultural Spaces of Siegfried Kracauer: The Many
Surfaces of Berlin
Esther Leslie Kracauer's Weimar Geometry and Geomancy
James Donald Kracauer and the Dancing Girls
Steve Giles Making Visible, Making Strange: Photography and Representation
in Kracauer, Brecht and Benjamin
Elena Gualtieri The Territory of Photography: Between Modernity and
Utopia in Kracauer's Thought
Janet Harbord Contingency's Work: Kracauer's Theory of Film and the
Trope of the Accidental
Barry Langford The Strangest of Station Names: Changing Trains with
Kracauer and Benjamin
Graeme Gilloch Urban Optics: Film, Phantasmagoria and the City in
Benjamin and Kracauer
Jan Campbell Are Your Dreams Wishes or Desires?: Hysteria as Distraction
and Character in the Work of Siegfried Kracauer
Graeme Gilloch and Jaeho Below the Surface: Siegfried Kracauer's Kang 'Test-film'
Project
REVIEWS
Nadia Ellis Black Men of the World Unite!
Joe Moran A Life Less Ordinary
Ramaswami Harindranath Spectacular Conflicts, Naked Empires, and
the Colonization of Social Life
Malcolm Miles Form, Function, Utopia
BOOKNOTES Bram Ieven, Michelle Henning
Cover
image: Siegfried Kracauer, 1930
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