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2. Curious Americanism

  • Miriam Hansen
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Cinema and Experience
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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  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
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520950139-005

Chapters in this book

  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
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