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Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication
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This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.
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Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1996) was a German Jewish social theorist, journalist, and critic. After the Nazis’ accession to power, he left Germany for Paris and emigrated to the United States in 1941. His books include The Mass Ornament, The Salaried Masses, From Caligari to Hitler, and Theory of Film.
Jaeho Kang is an associate professor of communication at Seoul National University.
Graeme Gilloch is a professor of sociology at Lancaster University.
John Abromeit is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.
Jaeho Kang is an associate professor of communication at Seoul National University.
Graeme Gilloch is a professor of sociology at Lancaster University.
John Abromeit is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.
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Iain Macdonald, Université de Montréal:
This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects—some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime—that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society.
This superb volume presents a richly detailed portrait of Siegfried Kracauer's diverse intellectual efforts over a period of more than two decades. The result is an illuminating collection of essays, articles, and projects—some unpublished during Kracauer's lifetime—that nicely complements existing publications in English. Not only are we presented with essays and articles on the new media, popular culture, and propaganda of Kracauer's time, but the insights gathered together in this collection will, for many readers, also shed light on contemporary society.
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley:
Painstakingly assembled and carefully annotated by Kang, Gilloch, and Abromeit, this wide-ranging collection of Siegfried Kracauer's analyses of mid-twentieth-century politics and culture reveals a hitherto ignored dimension of his remarkable legacy. Perhaps even more significantly, it still has much to teach us about the uncannily similar challenges we face today.
Noah Isenberg, editor of Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna:
A landmark achievement in Kracauer scholarship, this collection presents many of the formerly neglected and lesser-known writings by one of the twentieth century’s greatest social and cultural critics. Augmenting Kracauer’s reputation as a preeminent film scholar, this book demonstrates his equally impressive gifts as an incisive interpreter of mass media.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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General Introduction
1 - Part 1 Studies of Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and the Masses (1936– 1940)
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INTRODUCTION
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1 Exposé. Mass and Propaganda. An Inquiry Into Fascist Propaganda
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2. Totalitarian Propaganda
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3 Abridged Restricted Schema
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4 Schemata
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5 Disposition
113 - Part 2 The Caligari Complex (1943– 1947)
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6. The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939– 40
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7 The Hitler Image
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8. Below the Surface: Project of a Test Film
155 - Part 3 Postwar Publics (1948– 1950)
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9 Re- education Program for the Reich
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10 How and Why the Public Responds to the Propagandist
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11 Popular Advertisements
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12 A Duck Crosses Main Street
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13 National Types as Hollywood Presents Them
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14 Deluge of Pictures
263 - Part 4 Cold War Tensions (1952– 1958)
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15. Appeals to the Near and Middle East: Implications of the Communications Studies Along the Soviet Periphery
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16 Attitudes Toward Various Communist Types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
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17 Proposal for a Research Project Designed to Promote the Use of Qualitative Analysis in the Social Sciences
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18 The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis
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19 On the Relation of Analysis to the Situational Factors in Case Studies
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20 The Social Research Center on the Campus
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Appendix 1: “Report on the Work ‘Totalitarian Propaganda in Germany and Italy’ by Siegfried Kracauer, pp. 1– 106”
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Appendix 2 Siegfried Kracauer and the Early Frankfurt School’s Analysis of Fascism as Right- Wing Populism
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Bibliography
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Sources
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Index
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Keywords for this book
critical theory; Frankfurt school; film studies; media studies; political philosophy
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Professional and scholarly;
