TY  - BOOK
AU  - Craver,Harry T.
TI  - Reluctant Skeptic: Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture 
T2  - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
SN  - 9781785334580
AV  - PT2621.R135 Z55 2017 
U1  - 834.912 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Kracauer, Siegfried
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1920s culture
KW  - 20th century
KW  - cinema
KW  - cinematography
KW  - college
KW  - contemporary questions
KW  - contextualizes kracauer
KW  - cultural anthropology
KW  - engaging
KW  - european literature
KW  - famous journalist
KW  - film and media
KW  - film history
KW  - film studies
KW  - frankfurt school
KW  - german film
KW  - german movies
KW  - journalism
KW  - kracauer
KW  - lit crit
KW  - philosophy
KW  - pop culture
KW  - popular media
KW  - quasi-theology
KW  - school
KW  - secular modernity
KW  - textbook
KW  - theodor adorno
KW  - weimar-era
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction. Kracauer on and in Weimar Modernity --; Chapter 1. “Location Suggests Content”: Kracauer on the Fringe of Religious Revival --; Chapter 2. Reading the War, Writing Crisis --; Chapter 3. From Copenhagen to Baker Street: Kracauer, Kierkegaard, and the Detective Novel --; Chapter 4. Religion on the Street: Kracauer and Religious Flânerie --; Conclusion. Criticism in the Negative Church --; Afterword. From Don Quixote to Sancho Panza --; Select Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T. Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural ferment of the 1920s
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ER  -