Opening the Tablet Box

Sarah MelvilleHistory
Opening the Tablet Box

Author: Sarah Melville

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004186521

Category: History

Page: 513

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With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.

Retrographic

Michael D. CarrollPhotography
Retrographic

Author: Michael D. Carroll

Publisher: Gingko Press Editions

ISBN: 1908211504

Category: Photography

Page: 192

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Through the careful selection of striking images and dedicated colourization research, Retrographic will take you on a visual tour of the distant past. Many of these moments are already burned into our collective memory through the power of photography as shared by people across the 177 year long Age of the Image. And now, these visual time capsules are collected together for the first time and presented in living colour.

The Curious Humanist

Johannes von MoltkePerforming Arts
The Curious Humanist

Author: Johannes von Moltke

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 9780520964853

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 336

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During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. 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. 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, in turn, Kracauer’s American writings helped shape the emergent discipline. Using archival sources and detailed readings, von Moltke asks what it means to consider Kracauer as the New York Intellectual he became in the last quarter century of his life. Adopting a transatlantic perspective on Kracauer’s work, von Moltke demonstrates how he pursued questions in conversation with contemporary critics from Theodor 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 debates, Kracauer’s own voice emerges as that of an incisive cultural critic invested in a humanist understanding of the cinema.