Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 7
3. Contents 9
4. Introduction 11
5. 1. Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film 27
6. 2. Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation 87
7. 3. Film and the Aesthetics of German Fascism 117
8. 4. Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity 153
9. 5. Mickey Mouse: Utopian and Barbarian 195
10. Conclusion: Benjamin’s Belated Aktualität 235
11. Bibliography 243
12. Index 253