Rag-Picker: Siegried Kracauer and the Mass Ornament.
Siegfried Kracauer The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays Garage publishing program in collaboration with Ad Marginem Press A collection of essays by the German sociologist and cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer on mass art and its relationship with the technological advancements of the first half of the twentieth century.
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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.
The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, Siegfried Kracauer, Harvard University Press, 1995, 067455163X, 9780674551633, 403 pages. 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.
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The Mass Ornament is a selection of essays almost all first published in the Frankfurter Zeitung, from 1920 to 1931. To those familiar with Kracauer only as the analyst and theorist of film, capable of sustained argument linking film to history, to cultural philosophy, to myth and to popular imagination, The Mass Ornament will come as a revelation.
This book is a celebration of the masses - their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up the master themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, mass culture and urban experience, and the relation between the group and the individual, Kracauer explores a kaleidoscope of topics: shopping arcades, the cinema, bestsellers and their readers, photography, da.