Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Name: Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
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ISBN: 9780674024458

ISBN-10: 0674024451

ISBN-13: 9780674024458

Edition: 2008

Authors: Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, Thomas Y. Levin, Edmund Jephcott

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Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in general--in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin's explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul. This book contains the…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University.

?Brigid Doherty is Associate Professor of German and of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.



A Note on the Texts


Editors' Introduction



The Production, Reproduction, and Reception of the Work of Art



The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version



Theory of Distraction



To the Planetarium



Garlanded Entrance



The Rigorous Study of Art



Imperial Panorama



The Telephone



The Author as Producer



Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century



Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian



Review of Sternberger's Panorama



Script, Image, Script-Image



Attested Auditor of Books



These Surfaces for Rent



The Antinomies of Allegorical Exegesis



The Ruin



Dismemberment of Language



Graphology Old and New



Painting and Graphics



Painting and the Graphic Arts



On Painting, or Sign and Mark



A Glimpse into the World of Children's Books



Dream Kitsch



Moonlit Nights on the Rue La Boetie



Chambermaids' Romances of the Past Century



Antoine Wiertz: Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head



Some Remarks on Folk Art



Chinese Paintings at the Bibliotheque Nationale



Photography



News about Flowers



Little History of Photography



Letter from Paris (2): Painting and Photography



Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuvieme siecle



Film



On the Present Situation of Russian Film



Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz



Chaplin



Chaplin in Retrospect



Mickey Mouse



The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression



The Publishing Industry and Radio



Journalism



A Critique of the Publishing Industry



The Newspaper



Karl Kraus



Reflections on Radio



Theater and Radio



Conversation with Ernst Schoen



Two Types of Popularity: Fundamental Reflections on a Radio Play



On the Minute


Index