The Trembling Upper World: On Siegfried Kracauer. The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.
145 months ago

Dr. Siegfried Kracauer, social scientist and author, died Saturday in Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, after an illness of three weeks.
81 months ago

In the crowded field of German novels published in 1928 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I, it might have been...
13 months ago

Siegfried Kracauer — or, according to my very accurate autocorrect, 'Cracker' — believed that culturally induced distraction had just such a...
110 months ago

Im Rahmen von Dok Leipzig wird am 31. Oktober zum elften Mal der Siegfried Kracauer Preis verliehen. Aus rund 80 eingesandten Filmkritiken wurden jetzt fünf...
2 months ago

In his writing about photography, Siegfried Kracauer, the Frankfurt School's freelance intellectual par excellence, was less concerned with...
117 months ago

Jörg Später describes his book on Siegfried Kracauer as a biography and its biographical details are extraordinarily well researched. But it is much more than...
51 months ago

Near the climax of Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi epic Metropolis, an android in disguise delivers an incendiary speech to a crowd of exploited...
23 months ago

Siegfried Kracauer sought out the zeitgeist in places where professional philosophers disdained to tread, and...
43 months ago

We think of passing the time as frustrating, but does long-term waiting hold the seeds of social and political action?
175 months ago