Barnouw, Dagmar.

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

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

xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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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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

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 199991
Cote: D16.155 .B3 1994
Statut: Disponible