Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Kracauer’s Legacies 1 Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von Moltke patterns of reception This Pen for Hire: Siegfried Kracauer as American Cultural Critic 29 Noah Isenberg Manhattan Crossroads: Theory of Film between the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectuals 42 Johannes von Moltke Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies 61 Eric Rentschler Highway Through the Void: The Film Theorist and the Film Actress 76 Heide Schlüpmann looking after kracauer Kracauer’s Photography Essay: Dot Matrix—General (An-)Archive—Film 93 Miriam Bratu Hansen In Kracauer’s Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image 111 Lutz Koepnick Siegfried Kracauer’s Two Art Histories 128 Elizabeth Otto Siegfried Kracauer’s Architectures 149 Claire Zimmerman “Dioramas of a New World”: Siegfried Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture 166 Kerstin Barndt Kracauer and Sound: Reading with an Anxious Ear 183 Theodore F. Rippey literary genres “Written by Himself”: Siegfried Kracauer’s “Auto-Biographical” Novels 199 Christian Rogowski The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin 213 Andreas Huyssen last things before the last: history, anthropology, ethnography, ethics On Natural History: Concepts of History in Adorno and Kracauer 229 Christina Gerhardt The “Passage” and the “Mission of Film”: Kracauer’s Investigations into Modern Realms of Experience 244 Sabine Biebl Among Other Things—a Miraculous Realist: Political Perspectives on the Theoretical Entanglement of Cinema and History in Siegfried Kracauer 258 Drehli Robnik The Exile of Modernity: Kracauer’s Figurations of the Stranger 276 Inka Mülder-Bach Contributors 293 Index 299 ...