The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology

In this anthology on realist film theory, I have a chapter on the work of Siegfried Kracauer. 

Kracauer lived as a writer and critic in Weimar Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. He then momentarily moved to France in the 1940s and, finally, to the United States, where he spent the rest of his life. 

In 1960 he published Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, which is his main work on film realism. In my chapter I introduce this work and what Kracauer means by 'physical reality', particularly focusing on two key concepts that are essential to his argument: Jewish Messianism, a branch of Judaic theology, and phenomenology, a branch of philosophy that studies the structures of experience and consciousness. 

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