Siegfried Kracauer’s affinities

Seen from today’s vantage point, Siegfried Kracauer’s Theory of Film (1960) envisages the possibility that the cinema may turn out to have been a historical phenomenon whose technological specifications as well as aesthetic properties are contingent, but whose ‘ontology’ speaks to such broad concern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas Elsaesser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2014-01-01
Series:NECSUS : European journal of media studies
Online Access:https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/siegfried-kracauers-affinities/