Siegfried Kracauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 358324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siegfried Kracauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siegfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Kracauer |
| SIGNATURE | KRACAUER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Lille |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cult of Distraction: On Berlin Picture-Houses (1926)
Le vendeur de journaux1
Papirosa1
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication
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.
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
Document inédit Plan pour un numéro cinéma de Micromégas
Dans le cadre de la parution prochaine des Écrits français de Siegfried Kracauer, les éditeurs nous ont permis de reproduire un des documents inclus dans leur publication. Siegfried Kracauer, ÉCRITS FRANÇAIS. Articles et critiques, inédits, correspondance 1933-1941 Stephanie Baumann et Nia Perivolaropoulou (éd.), Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal / Paris, éditions de la MSH, 2020 Les écrits réunis dans ce volume appartiennent à la pé…
Le caractère de la propagande totale
B. [Le caractère de la propagande totale]* I La guerre est également à l’origine de la propagande dont il est ici question. Je précise par avance qu’en dépit de la conformité générale entre la pratique de la propagande en Allemagne et cette même pratique en Italie, c’est avant tout de la situation en Allemagne qu’il convient de déduire la théorie de la propagande totalitaire. Cela tient déjà à ce que le national-socialisme, dans son ascension ver…
De Caligari à Hitler: Une histoire psychologique du cinéma allemand
De Caligari à Hitler : ce titre célèbre caractérise en un significatif raccourci la période la plus riche de l’histoire du septième art allemand. En 1919, Le Cabinet du Dr Caligari ouvrait, en effet, l’ère de l’« écran démoniaque » et en 1933 Hitler brisait net le sonore. Entre ces deux dates, l’expressionnisme témoigna des tourments de l’âme germanique tandis que le réalisme analysait une société en crise. Rarement le cinéma fut plus profondémen…
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving soci…
The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
La presse et l'opinion publique
La presse et l'opinion publique: 1931
Lors de l’allocution qu’il prononça, ces jours-ci, à l’occasion de l’ouverture du septième congrès de la sociologie allemande, le ministre de l’Éducation de l’État libre de Prusse, monsieur Grimme, fit cette remarque amusante : puisqu’ils se réunissaient, les sociologues avaient l’occasion de traiter leur propre congrès comme un objet sociologique. Une suggestion dite sur le ton de la plaisanterie, mais qu’il faut concrétiser tout à fait sérieuse…
Sur l'écrivain: 1931
Dans le recueil Deutsche Berufskunde, édité conjointement par Carl Mennicke et von der Gabelentz – recueil dont chacun devrait posséder un exemplaire, car il s’agit ici de connaissances sur la condition de la société contemporaine en Allemagne, et peut-être aussi sur la transformation de cette condition –, on trouve un excellent passage de Peter Suhrkamp sur le journaliste. Suhrkamp y esquisse les traits du journaliste ; non pas comme un phénomén…
Sur l'écrivain
À un auteur: Lettre de la rédaction des feuilletons
The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939–40
[originally published in 10:3] EXCERPT: "As far back as the early days of the Polish campaign the Nazis began a series of organizational steps to incorporate the newsreels in their system of war propaganda communications. They insisted upon authentic shots of warfare, extended the length of the newsreel, and speeded its release. In addition, every possible means was employed to force these pictorial records upon the native population, and to spre…
Un manuel de savoir-vivre mal compris. Analyse d'un concours berlinois
Sur le seuil du temps: Essais sur la photographie
Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) apparaît aujourd’hui comme un des intellectuels les plus originaux issus de la République de Weimar. À la fois philosophe, romancier, essayiste, sociologue et historien, critique et théoricien du cinéma, il fut aussi un penseur pionnier de la photographie, technique de reproduction dans laquelle il voit s’instaurer un nouveau rapport au temps. Ce recueil rassemble les essais qu’il a consacrés à ce médium depuis la f…
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Hollywood's Terror Films: Do They Reflect an American State of Mind
Films saturated with terror and sadism have issued from Hollywood in such numbers recently as to become commonplace. The trend undoubtedly had its source in the requirements of wartime propaganda. The original task was to depict the threat of Nazism to the American public Gestapo tortures, shining parades that alternated with silent agonies, life under the oppressive atmosphere of Nazi-conquered Europe, etc. But even in wartime, the trend went be…
Von Caligari zu Hitler: Eine psychologische Geschichte des deutschen Films
The hotel lobby
Two Chaplin Sketches
Two Chaplin Sketches Siegfried Kracauer Translated by John MacKay (bio) Translator’s Introduction The following brief reviews were written by the film critic and cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) in 1931, and reflect his responses to Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, and more generally to Chaplin’s artistic and worldly success. Kracauer makes high claims for Chaplin’s work as social critique. Chaplin’s films, he says, pit a convincing…
Le Voyage et la danse: Figures de ville et vues de film
Le voyage et les danses exotiques, les revues de girls et les parades gymniques, la photographie de presse et le culte des stars, les best-sellers et le cinéma - autant de phénomènes qui apparentent les feuilletons de Siegfried Kracauer à des mythographies de la modernité. Dans ces textes écrits pour le Frankfurter Zeitung sous la République de Weimar se croisent le regard du flâneur envoûté par l'activité de la rue et celui du critique de cinéma…
Siegfried Kracauer / Erwin Panofsky Briefwechsel 1941-1966: Mit einem Anhang: Siegfried Kracauer "under the spell of the living Warburg tradition"
Die Schriften aus dem Warburg Archiv umfassen kommentierte Editionen, die auf Material des Warburg Hauses Hamburg sowie des Warburg Instituts London basieren, sowie Tagungsbande.
The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis
Journal Article The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis Get access SIEGFRIED KRACAUER SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 4, WINTER 1952, Pages 631–642, https://doi.org/10.1086/266427 Published: 01 January 1952
Photography
Time and History
Our present Western conception of history as an immanent and continuous process in chronological, or secular, time is of modern origin. It came into being in the wake of increasing secularization and the concomitant rise of scientific inquiry; and it was preceded by mythological and theological conceptions which discounted the significance of chronological time for an understanding of the past. Think of the indifference to chronological accuracy …
Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
The large picture houses in Berlin are palaces of distraction; to call them movie theaters (Kinos) would be disrespectful. The latter are still abundant only in Old-Berlin and in the suburbs where they serve neighborhood audiences, and even there they are declining in number. Much more than such movie houses or even the ordinary theaters, it is the picture palaces, those optical fairylands, which are shaping the face of Berlin. The UFA palaces ab…
The Mass Ornament
ness of contemporary thinking is therefore ambivalent. From the point of view of mythological teachings, in which nature naively asserts itself, the process of abstraction as it is practiced in the natural sciences for example, is a gain in rationality which detracts from the glittering display of natural things. From the perspective of reason, the same process of abstraction appears conditioned by nature; it loses itself in an empty formalism wh…
National Types as Hollywood Presents Them
Journal Article National Types as Hollywood Presents Them Get access SIEGFRIED KRACAUER SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 1, SPRING 1949, Pages 53–72, https://doi.org/10.1086/266041 Published: 01 January 1949
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Hollywood's Terror Films: Do They Reflect an American State of Mind
Films saturated with terror and sadism have issued from Hollywood in such numbers recently as to become commonplace. The trend undoubtedly had its source in the requirements of wartime propaganda. The original task was to depict the threat of Nazism to the American public Gestapo tortures, shining parades that alternated with silent agonies, life under the oppressive atmosphere of Nazi-conquered Europe, etc. But even in wartime, the trend went be…
Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo
National Types as Hollywood Presents Them
Journal Article National Types as Hollywood Presents Them Get access SIEGFRIED KRACAUER SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 1, SPRING 1949, Pages 53–72, https://doi.org/10.1086/266041 Published: 01 January 1949
The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis
Journal Article The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis Get access SIEGFRIED KRACAUER SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 4, WINTER 1952, Pages 631–642, https://doi.org/10.1086/266427 Published: 01 January 1952
Attitudes toward Various Communist Types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
Satellite Mentality
Time and History
Our present Western conception of history as an immanent and continuous process in chronological, or secular, time is of modern origin. It came into being in the wake of increasing secularization and the concomitant rise of scientific inquiry; and it was preceded by mythological and theological conceptions which discounted the significance of chronological time for an understanding of the past. Think of the indifference to chronological accuracy …
The Mass Ornament
ness of contemporary thinking is therefore ambivalent. From the point of view of mythological teachings, in which nature naively asserts itself, the process of abstraction as it is practiced in the natural sciences for example, is a gain in rationality which detracts from the glittering display of natural things. From the perspective of reason, the same process of abstraction appears conditioned by nature; it loses itself in an empty formalism wh…
Fotografiet
Fotografiet
Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
The large picture houses in Berlin are palaces of distraction; to call them movie theaters (Kinos) would be disrespectful. The latter are still abundant only in Old-Berlin and in the suburbs where they serve neighborhood audiences, and even there they are declining in number. Much more than such movie houses or even the ordinary theaters, it is the picture palaces, those optical fairylands, which are shaping the face of Berlin. The UFA palaces ab…
Hitler Judge quei
Photography
Le Voyage et la danse: Figures de ville et vues de film
Le voyage et les danses exotiques, les revues de girls et les parades gymniques, la photographie de presse et le culte des stars, les best-sellers et le cinéma - autant de phénomènes qui apparentent les feuilletons de Siegfried Kracauer à des mythographies de la modernité. Dans ces textes écrits pour le Frankfurter Zeitung sous la République de Weimar se croisent le regard du flâneur envoûté par l'activité de la rue et celui du critique de cinéma…
Siegfried Kracauer / Erwin Panofsky Briefwechsel 1941-1966: Mit einem Anhang: Siegfried Kracauer "under the spell of the living Warburg tradition"
Die Schriften aus dem Warburg Archiv umfassen kommentierte Editionen, die auf Material des Warburg Hauses Hamburg sowie des Warburg Instituts London basieren, sowie Tagungsbande.
Two Chaplin Sketches
Two Chaplin Sketches Siegfried Kracauer Translated by John MacKay (bio) Translator’s Introduction The following brief reviews were written by the film critic and cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) in 1931, and reflect his responses to Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, and more generally to Chaplin’s artistic and worldly success. Kracauer makes high claims for Chaplin’s work as social critique. Chaplin’s films, he says, pit a convincing…
Von Caligari zu Hitler: Eine psychologische Geschichte des deutschen Films
The hotel lobby
Hollywood's Terror Films: Do They Reflect an American State of Mind
Films saturated with terror and sadism have issued from Hollywood in such numbers recently as to become commonplace. The trend undoubtedly had its source in the requirements of wartime propaganda. The original task was to depict the threat of Nazism to the American public Gestapo tortures, shining parades that alternated with silent agonies, life under the oppressive atmosphere of Nazi-conquered Europe, etc. But even in wartime, the trend went be…
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Sur le seuil du temps: Essais sur la photographie
Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) apparaît aujourd’hui comme un des intellectuels les plus originaux issus de la République de Weimar. À la fois philosophe, romancier, essayiste, sociologue et historien, critique et théoricien du cinéma, il fut aussi un penseur pionnier de la photographie, technique de reproduction dans laquelle il voit s’instaurer un nouveau rapport au temps. Ce recueil rassemble les essais qu’il a consacrés à ce médium depuis la f…
Un manuel de savoir-vivre mal compris. Analyse d'un concours berlinois
The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939–40
[originally published in 10:3] EXCERPT: "As far back as the early days of the Polish campaign the Nazis began a series of organizational steps to incorporate the newsreels in their system of war propaganda communications. They insisted upon authentic shots of warfare, extended the length of the newsreel, and speeded its release. In addition, every possible means was employed to force these pictorial records upon the native population, and to spre…
The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
La presse et l'opinion publique
La presse et l'opinion publique: 1931
Lors de l’allocution qu’il prononça, ces jours-ci, à l’occasion de l’ouverture du septième congrès de la sociologie allemande, le ministre de l’Éducation de l’État libre de Prusse, monsieur Grimme, fit cette remarque amusante : puisqu’ils se réunissaient, les sociologues avaient l’occasion de traiter leur propre congrès comme un objet sociologique. Une suggestion dite sur le ton de la plaisanterie, mais qu’il faut concrétiser tout à fait sérieuse…
Sur l'écrivain: 1931
Dans le recueil Deutsche Berufskunde, édité conjointement par Carl Mennicke et von der Gabelentz – recueil dont chacun devrait posséder un exemplaire, car il s’agit ici de connaissances sur la condition de la société contemporaine en Allemagne, et peut-être aussi sur la transformation de cette condition –, on trouve un excellent passage de Peter Suhrkamp sur le journaliste. Suhrkamp y esquisse les traits du journaliste ; non pas comme un phénomén…
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