UID:
almahu_9949465230802882
Format:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839406816
Series Statement:
Kultur- und Medientheorie
Note:
Cover The Politics of Imagination -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Walter Benjamin -- Chapter 1: Benjamin, Proust and the Rejuvenating Powers of Memory -- 1.1 Benjamin's Childhood Reminiscences -- 1.2 Children's Play and Proletarian Children's Theatre -- 1.3 Creative Writing and Play -- Chapter 2: The Politics of Aura and Imagination in Benjamin's Writings on Hashish -- 2.1 Auratic Experience and Involuntary Memory -- 2.2 Imagination and Mimesis -- Chapter 3: "Reproducibility - Distraction - Politicization" -- 3.1 The Aura, Contemplation, and Distraction -- 3.2 Changing Film's Technical Standards -- 3.3 Autonomy and Unity in Film -- 3.4 Film and Epic Theatre -- Part 2: Siegfried Kracauer -- Chapter 4: "Film as the Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life": Kracauer and the Promise of Realist Cinema -- 4.1 Photography, Proust, and the Task of a Realist Cinema -- 4.2 The Child's Capacity for Perception and Imagination -- Chapter 5: On the Task of a Realist Historiography in Kracauer's History: The Last Things Before the Last -- 5.1 Photography, History, and Memory -- 5.2 The Task of a Realist Historiography -- Part 3: Alexander Kluge -- Chapter 6: From History's Rubble: Kluge on Film, History, and Politics -- 6.1 Autorenkino and Counter-histories -- 6.2 The Construction Site of History -- Chapter 7: Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television -- 7.1 Information, Storytelling, and Experience -- 7.2 Raw Materials for the Imagination -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Other Works Cited -- Acknowledgements.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Forrest, Tara The Politics of Imagination Bielefeld : transcript,c2015 ISBN 9783899426816
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
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URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/2318c092-65e4-4bbc-b9a7-58bb21c839a0
