ISBN:
9780691218069
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 283 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Literary studies, film studies
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Gleber, Anke The art of taking a walk
DDC:
700/.453
Keywords:
Geschichte 1918-1933
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Goll, Yvan
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Hake, Sabine
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Hessel, Franz
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Jünger, Ernst
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Koch, Gertrud
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Kracauer, Siegfried
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Kurfürstendamm
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Landwehrkanal
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Lichtspiele
;
Lumière brothers
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Munich
;
National Socialism
;
New Subjectivity
;
New Woman
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advertising;Aragon, Louis;Augenblick;Benjamin, Walter;Berlin;boredom;Bildung;camera;capitalism;cinema;commodity;dandy;Denkbild;detective
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eroticism
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fashion
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feuilleton
;
film theory
;
historian
;
industrialization
;
melancholy
;
modernity
;
photography
;
psychoanalysis
;
railroads
;
scopophilia
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semiotics
;
spectator
;
tourism
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
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Arts, German 20th century
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Culture in motion pictures
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Flaneurs in art
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Flaneurs in literature
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Flaneurs in motion pictures
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Film
;
Weimarer Republik
;
Flaneur
;
Literatur
;
Deutsch
;
Deutschland
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Flaneur
;
Geschichte 1918-1933
;
Deutschland
;
Film
;
Flaneur
;
Geschichte 1918-1933
;
Weimarer Republik
;
Literatur
;
Flaneur
;
Weimarer Republik
;
Film
;
Flaneur
Abstract:
Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated. She sketches the European influences that produced the German flaneur and establishes the figure as a pervasive presence in Weimar culture, as well as a profound influence on modern perceptions of public space. The book begins by exploring the theory of literary flanerie and the technological changes--street lighting, public transportation, and the emergence of film--that gave a new status to the activities of seeing and walking in the modern city. Gleber then assesses the place of flanerie in works by Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and other representatives of Weimar literature, arts, and theory. She draws particular attention to the works of Franz Hessel, a Berlin flaneur who argued that flanerie is a "reading" of the city that perceives passersby, streets, and fleeting impressions as the transitory signs of modernity. Gleber also examines connections between flanerie and Weimar film, and discusses female flanerie as a means of asserting female subjectivity in the public realm. The book is a deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space
DOI:
10.1515/9780691218069
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