Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Preface vii
5. Introduction: Representation, Perception and Cinematic Realism 1
6. 1. Bergson, the Image and Time 45
7. 2. Introduction to Lukács: Essence, Phenomena and Temporality 72
8. 3. ‘On the Phenomenology of the Creative Process’ (Lukács 1914) 94
9. 4. ‘Thoughts towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema’ (Lukács 1913) 113
10. 5. The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Lukács 1963) 133
11. 6. Husserl, Epochē and Lebenswelt 157
12. 7. Introduction to Kracauer: Abstraction, Redemption and Modernity 180
13. 8. ‘Photography’ (Kracauer 1927) 191
14. 9. ‘Introduction: Photography’ and ‘Basic Concepts’, from Theory of Film (Kracauer 1960) 217
15. 10. ‘The Historical Approach’ and ‘The Historian’s Journey’, from History: The Last Things Before the Last (Kracauer 1968) 254
16. Bibliography 290
17. Index 304