The trail left by responses to the idea of Siegfried Kracauer as a “ragpicker”(
Lumpensammler) winds alluringly through both these books. Derived from Walter Benjamin …

This book was written under a death sentence. The author passed away before it made it
onto the bookshelves, but it is the result of a lifetime's engagement with questions of cinema …

“Like a careful gardener, Miriam Hansen planted and interwove traditions of Frankfurt critical
theory, modern film history, and her own critical passions and curiosity. She is an important …

Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Cinema
and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Abstract Deftly …

Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor
Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book …

The project of the book, Hansen's main motivational engine in writing it, is to propose
models for transcending the long-standing divide between political and social perspectives …

Among the most striking features of Miriam Hansen's Cinema and Experience is how little it
resembles a rescue mission. Of the three figures the book treats—TW Adorno, Walter …

" Siegfried Kracauer is today considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
During the Weimar Republic, he established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture …

I first encountered the work of Miriam Hansen as a graduate student in the mid-1990s when
her book BABEL AND BABYLON was the talk of the (at that time still fairly modest) film …

Here emerges the big weakness, not of this volume, but of its field-one which neither the
editors nor the authors of the individual texts could have done much about. There is almost …