The politics of imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
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Main Author: Forrest, Tara (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld Transcript-Verl. 2007
Series:Cultural and media studies
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Online Access:Volltext
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Part 1: Walter Benjamin -- Benjamin, Proust and the rejuvenating powers of memory -- Benjamin's childhood reminiscences -- Children's play and proletarian children's theatre -- Creative writing and play -- Chapter 2: The politics of Aura and imagination in Benjamin's writings on Hashish -- Auratic experience and involuntary memory -- Imagination and mimesis -- Chapter 3: "Reproducibility - Distraction - Politicization" -- The Aura, contemplation, and distraction -- Changing film's technical standards -- Autonomy and Unity in Film -- Film and epic theatre -- Part 2: Siegfried Kracauer -- "Film as the discoverer of the Marvels of everyday life": Kracauer and the promise of realist cinema -- Photography, Proust, and the task of a realist cinema -- The child's capacity for perception and imagination -- On the task of a realist historiography in Kracauer's history: the last things before the last -- Photography, history, and memory -- The task of a realist historiography -- Part 3: Alexander Kluge -- From History's rubble: Kluge on film, history, and politics -- Autorenkino and counter-histories -- The construction site of history -- Raw materials for the imagination: Kluge's work for television -- Information, storytelling, and experience -- Raw materials for the imagination
Physical Description:194 S. Ill.
ISBN:9783899426816
3899426819
9783839406816
DOI:10.1515/9783839406816