Miriam Hansen's brilliant introduction chronicles the work's genesis and transformation through Kracauer's conversations with Adorno and Benjamin, his flight from the Nazis, and his uneasy assimilation into the Cold-War United States.

With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema ...

These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré intellectual.

The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy ...

This edition includes Kracauer’s preface to the original German edition, translated into English for the first time, and a critical foreword by Gertrud Koch.

Kracauers Angestellten-Buch ist ein Klassiker der analytisch-dokumen­tarischen Literatur, der seit seinem Erscheinen (1930) kaum etwas an Aktualität eingebüßt hat. »Der Wirklichkeit wird so sehr zugesetzt, dass sie Farbe bekennen muß ...

First published in 1930 this analysis of Germany's emerging salaried class reveals how, in a very short period, the masses embraced Nazism. They eschewed the old society that previously sought pleasure in a range of social distractions.

One after another Siegfried Kracauer examines various theories of history and exposes their strengths and weaknesses.

This book brings together a broad selection of Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English.