2. Curious Americanism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Abbreviations xxi
6. Part I. Kracauer
7. 1. Film, Medium of a Disintegrating World 3
8. 2. Curious Americanism 40
9. Part II. Benjamin
10. 3. Actuality, Antinomies 75
11. 4. Aura. The Appropriation of a Concept 104
12. 5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball 132
13. 6. Micky-Maus 163
14. 7. Play-Form of Second Nature 183
15. Part III. Adorno
16. 8. The Question of Film Aesthetics 207
17. Part IV. Kracauer in Exile
18. 9. Theory of Film 253
19. Notes 281
20. Index 357