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  • From Caligari to Hitler

    A Psychological History of the German Film

    by Siegfried Kracauer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Ginster

    by Siegfried Kracauer, Johannes von Moltke ...
    Translated by Carl Skoggard ...
    When World War I breaks out, a young architecture student in Munich does everything in his power to avoid being enlisted into the German military in this perceptive, wickedly humorous novel by a prominent twentieth-century writer, journalist, and film critic.Ginster is a war novel about not going to war; about how war, far from the front, comes to warp every aspect of outer and inner life and to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication

    by Siegfried Kracauer ...
    Series Book 80 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his contemporaries and colleagues associated with the Frankfurt School.This book brings together a broad selection of Kracauer’s work on media and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings

    Essays on Film and Popular Culture

    by Siegfried Kracauer ...
    Series Book 45 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication

    by Siegfried Kracauer ...
    Series Book 80 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his contemporaries and colleagues associated with the Frankfurt School.This book brings together a broad selection of Kracauer’s work on media and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Correspondence

    1923 - 1966

    by Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer ...
    Translated by Susan Reynolds, Michael Winkler ...
    Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer’s writings on film, photography, literature and the lifestyle of the middle classes opened up a new and distinctive approach to the study of culture and everyday life in modern ... Read more

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  • Grand Hotel Abyss

    The Lives of the Frankfurt School

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    “Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative.” —Guardian“An engaging and accessible history.” —New York Review of BooksThis group biography is “an exhilarating page-turner” and “outstanding critical introduction” to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington Post).In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and in... ... Read more

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  • The German Genius

    Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

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  • The Complete Works of Franz Kafka

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    The Complete works of Franz Kafka with active table of content for easy navigation through all of his great works. ... Read more

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  • Weimar Culture

    The Outsider as Insider

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