Author: Koch, Gertrud
Title: Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,137 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Early Days: A Biographical Sketch; The Early Phenomenology of Modernity & Mass Culture: Of Hotel Lobbies & Detective Novels; Surface &Self-representation: "The Mass Ornament" & 'Die Angestellten'; Autobiography & Social Biography: 'Ginster, Georg and Offenbach; Continuity & Mentality: "From Caligari to Hitler"; Space, Time & Apparatus:The Optical Medium "Theory of Film"; At the End: A Philosophy of History & Historiography.

Keywords: German Literature, Siegfried Kracauer, Film Criticism, Literary History, Critical Theory, Weimar Germany, Cinema, Motion Pictures, Biography