Walter Benjamin and the aesthetics of film / Daniel Mourenza.

Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan of the comedies of Adolphe Menjou, Mickey Mouse, and Charlie Chaplin. As an antidote to repressive c...

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Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Acknowledgements --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction --  |t 1. Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film --  |t 2. Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation --  |t 3. Film and the Aesthetics of German Fascism --  |t 4. Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity --  |t 5. Mickey Mouse: Utopian and Barbarian --  |t Conclusion: Benjamin's Belated Aktualität --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
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