TY - BOOK AU - Gleber,Anke TI - The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture SN - 9780691218069 U1 - 700/.453 22 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Arts, German KW - 20th century KW - Culture in motion pictures KW - Flaneurs in art KW - Flaneurs in literature KW - Flaneurs in motion pictures KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh KW - Aragon, Louis KW - Augenblick KW - Benjamin, Walter KW - Berlin KW - Bildung KW - Denkbild KW - Goll, Yvan KW - Hake, Sabine KW - Hessel, Franz KW - Jünger, Ernst KW - Koch, Gertrud KW - Kracauer, Siegfried KW - Kurfürstendamm KW - Landwehrkanal KW - Lichtspiele KW - Lumière brothers KW - Munich KW - National Socialism KW - New Subjectivity KW - New Woman KW - advertising KW - boredom KW - camera KW - capitalism KW - cinema KW - commodity KW - dandy KW - detective KW - eroticism KW - fashion KW - feuilleton KW - film theory KW - historian KW - industrialization KW - melancholy KW - modernity KW - photography KW - psychoanalysis KW - railroads KW - scopophilia KW - semiotics KW - spectator KW - tourism N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; PART ONE: LITERATURE, CULTURE, THEORY --; Chapter 1. Walking Texts: Toward a Theory of Literary Flanerie --; Chapter 2. The City of Modernity: Shifting Perspectives, Urban Transitions --; Chapter 3. Passages of Flanerie: Kracauer and Benjamin --; PART TWO: HESSEL IN BERLIN --; Chapter 4. The Art of Walking: Reflections of Berlin --; Chapter 5. Secret Berlin, A Junk Store of Happiness --; Chapter 6. Fragments of Flanerie --; PART THREE: FLANERIE AND FILM --; Chapter 7. A Short Phenomenology of Flanerie --; Chapter 8. Flanerie, or The Redemption of Visual Reality --; PART FOUR: FEMALE FLANERIE --; Chapter 9. Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur --; Chapter 10. Weimar Women, Walkers, Writers: Irmgard Keun and Charlotte Wolff --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated. She sketches the European influences that produced the German flaneur and establishes the figure as a pervasive presence in Weimar culture, as well as a profound influence on modern perceptions of public space. The book begins by exploring the theory of literary flanerie and the technological changes--street lighting, public transportation, and the emergence of film--that gave a new status to the activities of seeing and walking in the modern city. Gleber then assesses the place of flanerie in works by Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and other representatives of Weimar literature, arts, and theory. She draws particular attention to the works of Franz Hessel, a Berlin flaneur who argued that flanerie is a "reading" of the city that perceives passersby, streets, and fleeting impressions as the transitory signs of modernity. Gleber also examines connections between flanerie and Weimar film, and discusses female flanerie as a means of asserting female subjectivity in the public realm. The book is a deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691218069?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691218069 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691218069.jpg ER -