Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, 1960, IA, PDF.

Works

• From Caligary to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, Princeton University Press, 1947; rev.ed., exp., ed. & intro. Leonardo Quaresima, Princeton University Press, 2004, 348 pp. (English)
  • De Caligari a Hitler. Historia psicológica del cine alemán, trans. Héctor Grossi, Buenos Aires: Buena Visión, 1961; Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1985. (Spanish)
  • Von Caligari zu Hitler. Eine psychologische Geschichte des deutschen Films, trans. Ruth Baumgarten and Karsten Witte, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1979; 1984; 1995. (German)

• Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, Oxford University Press, 1960, PDF; new ed., intro. Miriam Bratu Hansen, Princeton University Press, 1997, 488 pp, [1]. [2] (English) Reviews and commentaries: Callenbach (1960), Hansen (1993).
  • Film: ritorno alla realtà fisica, intro. Guido Aristarco, trans. Paolo Gobetti, Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1962, 524 pp. (Italian)
  • Theorie des Films: die Errettung der äußeren Wirklichkeit, trans. Friedrich Walter and Ruth Zellschan, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1964, 454 pp. (German)
  • Priroda filma. Reabilitatsiya fizicheskoy realnosti [Природа фильма. Реабилитация физической реальности], trans. D.F. Sokolovoy, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1974, 422 pp. (Russian)
  • Dian ying di ben xing: wu zhi xian shi de fu yuan [电影的本性: 物质现实的复原], Beijing: Zhongguo dian ying chu ban she, 1981. (Chinese)
  • Teoría del cine: la redención de la realidad física, trans. Jorge Hornero, Barcelona: Paidós, 1989, vii+406 pp. (Spanish)

• Das Ornament der Masse: Essays, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1963. Part. (German)
  • The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans, ed. & intro. Thomas Y. Levin, Harvard University Press, 1995, 416 pp. (English)

• American Writings and Film After Film : or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?, eds. Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson, University of California Press, 2012, 304 pp. [3] (English) Reviews: Maciak, Hoberman.

Literature

• Theodor W. Adorno, "The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer", trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, New German Critique 54 (1991), pp 159-177. (English) Written as a radio talk in 1964 for Kracauer's 75th birthday.

• New German Critique 54: "Siegfried Kracauer", en. Mark M. Anderson, Fall 1991. (English)

• Joan Ockman, "Between Ornament and Monument: Siegfried Kracauer and the Architectural Implications of the Mass Ornament", Thesis 3, Weimar: Bauhaus-Universität, 2003, pp 74-91.

• Graeme Gilloch, Siegfried Kracauer, Polity, 2015. (English)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Kracauer