Critical realism : history, photography, and the work of Siegfried Kracauer / Dagmar Barnouw.

Main entry:

Barnouw, Dagmar.

Title & Author:

Critical realism : history, photography, and the work of Siegfried Kracauer / Dagmar Barnouw.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1994]
©1994

Description:

xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Parallax

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-342) and index.
Preface: Time Travel -- Ch. 1. Time and Knowledge -- Ch. 2. Contemporaneity and the Concept of History -- Ch. 3. Representation as Reclamation -- Ch. 4. The Shapes of Objectivity -- Ch. 5. Orpheus and Ahasver: The Strangeness of Things Past -- Ch. 6. Image, Imagination, and Historical Evidence -- Epilogue: Modernity, Poetry, and the Writing of History.
Also issued online.
English.

Summary:

A respected journalist and film critic for Frankfurter Zeitung during the Weimar period, Siegfried Kracauer worked with a more comprehensive concept of cultural modernity than did his friends Bloch, Adorno, and Benjamin. Sensitive to the postwar experience of rapid technological advances and profound cultural transformation, he emphasized the contemporary significance of the documentary imagination. Though he acknowledged that reality is a construction, its modern pluralism suggested to him modalities of objectivity rather than despair of it. In Critical Realism Dagmar Barnouw explores the connections that Kracauer stated in his last book, History, between the representational modes of photography and historiography, both of them characteristically composite and unstable. Drawing on recent developments in the history and theory of photography andhistoriography, she argues the contemporaneity of Kracauer's thought to late twentieth century cultural modernity.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0801847532 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780801847530 (hc ; alk. paper)
0801847540 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780801847547 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Kracauer, Siegfried.
Kracauer, Siegfried 1889-1966
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966
Motion pictures Philosophy.
Visual communication.
Motion pictures and history.
History Methodology.
History Philosophy.
Communication visuelle.
Cinéma et histoire.
Histoire Méthodologie.
Cinéma Philosophie.
Histoire Philosophie.
15.02 philosophy and theory of history.
21.40 photographic art: general.
Film
Geschichte
Visuelle Kommunikation
Geschiedwetenschap.
Fotografie.
Representatie (algemeen)
Photography in historiography
Photography Philosophy

Added entries:

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 199991
Call No.: D16.155 .B3 1994
Status: Available

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