Bibliography

WORKS BY SIEGFRIED KRACAUER

Siegfried Kracauer Werke, 9 vols., edited by Inka Mülder-Bach and Ingrid Belke (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004–2012).

Vol. 1 Soziologie als Wissenschaft. Der Detektiv-Roman. Die Angestellten

Vol. 2.1 Von Caligari zu Hitler

Vol. 2.2 Studien zu Massenmedien und Propaganda

Vol. 3 Theorie des Films: Die Errettung der äußeren Wirklichkeit

Vol. 4 Geschichte—Vor den letzten Dingen

Vol. 5.1 Essays, Feuilletons, Rezensionen, 1906–1923

Vol. 5.2 Essays, Feuilletons, Rezensionen, 1924–1927

Vol. 5.3 Essays, Feuilletons, Rezensionen, 1908–1931

Vol. 5.4 Essays, Feuilletons, Rezensionen, 1932–1965

Vol. 6.1 Kleine Schriften zum Film, 1921–1927

Vol. 6.2 Kleine Schriften zum Film, 1928–1931

Vol. 6.3 Kleine Schriften zum Film 1932–1961

Vol. 7 Romane und Erzählungen

Vol. 8 Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit

Vol. 9 Frühe Schriften aus dem Nachlaß

Totalitäre Propaganda, edited by Bernd Stiegler (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2013).

BOOKS IN ENGLISH

• The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany. Translated by Quintin Hoare. New York: Verso, [1930] 1998.
• Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time. Translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. New York: Zone, [1937] 2002.
• From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1947] 2019.
• Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1960] 1997.
• The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays. Translated by Thomas Y. Levin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [1963] 1995.
• History: The Last Things Before the Last. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969.
• Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture. Edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
• The Past’s Threshold: Essays on Photography. Edited by Philippe Despoix and Maria Zinfert. Translated by Conor Joyce. Berlin: Diaphanes, 2014.
• Georg. Translated by Carl Skoggard. Troy, NY: Publication Studio Hudson, 2016.
• Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer: Correspondence, 1923–1966. Edited by Wolfgang Schopf. Translated by Susan Reynolds and Michael Winkler. Cambridge: Polity, 2020.

SELECTED SECONDARY LITERATURE (ENGLISH, SINCE 1991)

Books

• Barnouw, Dagmar. Critical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
• Craver, Harry T. Reluctant Skeptic: Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture. New York: Berghahn, 2017.
• Fisher, Peter S. Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer. Berlin: Transcript, 2020.
• Forrest, Tara. The Politics of Imagination: Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
• Gemünden, Gerd, and Johannes Von Moltke, eds. Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012.
• Gilloch, Graeme. Siegfried Kracauer: Our Companion in Misfortune. Cambridge: Polity, 2015.
• Hansen, Miriam B. Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
• Koch, Gertrud. Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction. Translated by Jeremy Gaines. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Martin, Adrian. Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez. Santa Barbara, CA: Punctum, 2012.
• Reeh, Henrik. Ornaments of the Metropolis: Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
• Später, Jörg. Kracauer: A Biography. Translated by Daniel Steuer. Cambridge: Polity, 2020.
• Vedda, Miguel. Siegfried Kracauer, or, The Allegories of Improvisation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
• von Moltke, Johannes. The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.

Book Chapters

• Elsaesser, Thomas. “Expressionist Film or Weimar Cinema? With Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner (Once More) to the Movies.” In Weimar Cinema and After: Germany’s Historical Imaginary, 18–60. New York: Routledge, 2000.
• Gilloch, Graeme. “ ‘Hamlet wird Detekiv’: Reflections on Kracauer, Benjamin, and (Neo)-Noir.” In The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby, edited by Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch, 181–95. New York: Routledge, 2020.
• ________. “Impromptus of a Great City: Siegfried Kracauer’s Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo.” In Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City, edited by Mari Hvattum and Christian Hermansen, 291–306. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• ________. “Orpheus in Hollywood: Siegfried Kracauer’s Offenbach Film.” In Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City, edited by Mari Hvattum and Christian Hermansen, 307–23. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• ________. “Sunshine and Noir: Benjamin, Kracauer, and Roth Visit the White Cities.” In Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change, edited by Anca M. Pusca, 82–94. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Hansen, Miriam B. “America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on Cinema and Modernity.” In Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, edited by Leo Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz, 362–402. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
• Infante, Ignacio. “States of Exile: Kracauer’s Extraterritoriality, and the Poetics of Memory in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Estado de exilio (2003).” In Liquid Borders: Migration as Resistance, edited by Mabel Moraña, 131–42. London: Routledge, 2021.
• Jarosinski, Eric. “Urban Mediations: The Theoretical Space of Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster.” In Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture, edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara C. Mennel, 171–88. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.
• Jennings, Michael W. “Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar Criticism.” In Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, edited by Peter E. Gordon and John P. McCormick, 203–19. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
• Kaes, Anton. “Siegfried Kracauer: The Film Historian in Exile.” In “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York—A Compendium on Exile After 1933, edited by Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel, 236–69. Vienna: De Gruyter, 2012.
• Leslie, Esther. “Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: Memory from Weimar to Hitler.” In Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates, edited by Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz, 123–35. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
• Linfield, Susan. “Kael and Kracauer: The (Very) Odd Couple.” In Talking About Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and Scholars Remember an Icon, edited by Wayne Stengel, 145–58. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
• Martins, Ansgar. “Siegfried Kracauer: Documentary Realist and Critic of Ideological ‘Homelessness.’ ” Translated by Lars Fischer. In The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, edited by Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, and Chris O’Kane, 234–51. Newbuy Park, CA: SAGE, 2018.
• Miller, Sanda. “Siegfried Kracauer: Critical Observations on the Discreet Charm of the Metropolis.” In Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Culture, Media, and Theory, edited by David Berry, 7–25. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Morelock, Jeremiah. “Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films.” In How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School, 391-411. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
• Reeh, Henrik. “Fragmentation, Improvisation, and Urban Quality: A Heterotopian Motif in Siegfried Kracauer.” In Chora, Vol. 3: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, edited by Alberto Perez-Gomez and Stephen Parcell, 157–78. Toronoto: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.
• Richter, Gerhard. “Homeless Images: Kracauer’s Extraterritoriality, Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other.” In Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers’ Reflections from Damaged Life, 107–46. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
• Robnik, Drehli. “Siegfried Kracauer.” In Film, Theory, and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, edited by Felicity Colman, 40–50. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2009.
• Steiner, Henriette. “The Sea, the City, the Ruin, and the Whore: Siegfried Kracauer in Marseilles.” In New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, edited by Alfred J. Drake, 285–305. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
• Tanca, Marcello. “Corpore praesenti: Walking in Urbanscape with Siegfried Kracauer and Georges Perec.” In Philosophy of Landscape: Think, Walk, Act, edited by Adriana V. Serrão and Moirika Reker, 221–37. Lisbon: Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon, 2019.
• Taylor, Paul A., and Jan LI Harris. “Siegfried Kracauer’s Mass Ornament.” In Critical Theories of Mass Media: Then and Now, 39–61. London: Open University Press, 2008.
• von Moltke, Johannes. “2 February, 1956: Siegfried Kracauer Advocates a Socio-Aesthetic Approach to Film in a Letter to Enno Patalas.” In A New History of German Cinema, edited by Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Michael D. Richardson, 359–64. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012.
• Wils, Tyson. “Phenomenology, Theology, and ‘Physical Reality’: The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer.” In The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology, edited by Ian Aitken, 67–80. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• Zakai, Avihu. “Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler: Weimar Cinema as Pandora’s Box.” In Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism, 71–116. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
• Zaslove, Jerry. “ ‘The Reparation of Dead Souls’: Siegfried Kracauer’s Archimedean Exile—The Prophetic Journey from Death to Bildung.” In Exile, Science, and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Émigré Intellectuals, edited by David Kettler and Gerhard Lauer, 139–55. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Journal Articles

• Abbate, Carolyn. “Offenbach, Kracauer, and Ethical Frivolity.” Opera Quarterly 33, no. 1 (2017): 62–86.
• Aitken, Ian. “Distraction and Redemption: Kracauer, Surrealism, and Phenomenology.” Screen 39, no. 2 (1998): 124–40.
• ________. “Physical Reality: The Role of the Empirical in the Film Theory of Siegfried Kracauer, John Grierson, André Bazin, and Georg Lukács.” Studies in Documentary Film 1, no. 2 (2007): 105–21.
• Allen, John. “The Cultural Spaces of Siegfried Kracauer: The Many Surfaces of Berlin.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 20–33.
• Anderson, Mark M. “Siegfried Kracauer and Meyer Schapiro: A Friendship.” New German Critique, no. 54 (1991): 19–29.
• Baer, Nicholas. “Historical Turns: On Caligari, Kracauer, and New Film History.” Research in Film and History, no. 1 (2018): 1–16.
• Bardach-Yalov, Elina. “Analyzing Russian Propaganda: Application of Siegfried Kracauer’s Qualitative Content Analysis Method.” Journal of Information Warfare 11, no. 2 (2012): 24–36.
• Benjamin, Andrew. “What, in Truth, Is Photography? Notes After Kracauer.” Oxford Literary Review 32, no. 2 (2010): 189–201.
• Blatterer, Harry. “Siegfried Kracauer’s Differentiating Approach to Friendship.” Journal of Historical Sociology 32, no. 2 (2019): 173–88.
• Brett, Donna MF. “The Uncanny Return: Documenting Place in Post-war German Photography.” Photographies 3, no. 1 (2010): 7–22.
• Campbell, Jan. “Are Your Dreams Wishes or Desires? Hysteria as Distraction and Character in the Work of Siegfried Kracauer.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 132–48.
• Carroll, Noël. “The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer.” Millennium Film Journal 1, no. 2 (1998): 77–85.
• Clucas, Stephen. “Cultural Phenomenology and the Everyday.” Critical Quarterly 42, no. 1 (2000): 8–34.
• Craver, Harry T. “Dismantling the Subject: Concepts of the Individual in the Weimar Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Gottfried Benn.” New German Critique, no. 127 (2016): 1–35.
• Culbert, David. “The Rockefeller Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, and Siegfried Kracauer, 1941.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 13, no. 4 (1993): 495–511.
• Dimendberg, Edward. “Down These Seen Streets a Man Must Go: Siegfried Kracauer, ‘Hollywood’s Terror Films,’ and the Spatiality of Film Noir.” New German Critique, no. 89 (2003): 113–43.
• Donald, James. “Kracauer and the Dancing Girls.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 49–63.
• Eksteins, Modris. “Rag-picker: Siegfried Kracauer and the Mass Ornament.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 10, no. 4 (1997): 609–13.
• Elsaesser, Thomas. “Siegfried Kracauer’s Affinities.” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 3, no. 1 (2014): 5–20.
• Ermarth, Michael. “Girls Gone Wild in Weimar Germany: Siegfried Kracauer on Girlkultur and the Un-kultur of Americanism.” Modernism/Modernity 19, no. 1 (2012): 1–18.
• Ethis, Emmanuel. “From Siegfried Kracauer to Darth Vader: Shots on Cinema and Social Sciences.” Sociétés 96, no. 2 (2007): 9–20.
• Fay, Jennifer. “Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauer’s Cold Love.” Discourse 33, no. 3 (2011): 291–321.
• Fleischer, Molly. “The Gaze of the Flaneur in Siegfried Kracauer’s ‘Das Ornament Der Masse.’ ” German Life and Letters 54, no. 1 (2001): 10–24.
• Frey, Mattias. “Filmkritik, with and Without Italics: Kracauerism and Its Limits in Postwar German Film Criticism.” New German Critique, no. 120 (2013): 85–110.
• Frisby, David. “Between the Spheres: Siegfried Kracauer and the Detective Novel.” Theory, Culture & Society 9, no. 2 (1992): 1–22.
• Giles, Steve. “Making Visible, Making Strange: Photography and Representation in Kracauer, Brecht, and Benjamin.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 64-75.
• Gilloch, Graeme. “Fragments, Cityscapes, Modernity: Kracauer on the Cannebière.” Journal of Classical Sociology 13, no. 1 (2012): 20–29.
• ________. “Urban Optics: Film, Phantasmagoria, and the City in Benjamin and Kracauer.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 115–31.
• Gilloch, Graeme, and Jaeho Kang. “ ‘Below the Surface’: Siegfried Kracauer’s ‘Test-Film’ Project.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 149–60.
• Hales, Barbara. “Taming the Technological Shrew: Woman as Machine in Weimar Culture.” Neophilologus 94, no. 2 (2010): 301–16.
• Handelman, Matthew. “The Dialectics of Otherness: Siegfried Kracauer’s Figurations of the Jew, Judaism, and Jewishness.” Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies 2, no. 1 (2015): 90–111.
• ________. “The Forgotten Conversation: Five Letters from Franz Rosenzweig to Siegfried Kracauer, 1921–1923.” Scientia Poetica 15, no. 2011 (2011): 234–51.
• Hansen, Miriam B. “Decentric Perspectives: Kracauer’s Early Writings on Film and Mass Culture.” New German Critique, no. 54 (1991): 47–76.
• ________. “Mass Culture as Hieroglyphic Writing: Adorno, Derrida, Kracauer.” New German Critique, no. 56 (1992): 43–73.
• Itkin, Alan. “Orpheus, Perseus, Ahasuerus: Reflection and Representation in Siegfried Kracauer’s Underworlds of History.” Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 87, no. 2 (2012): 175–202.
• Jacobs, Steven, and Hilde D’haeyere. “Frankfurter Slapstick: Benjamin, Kracauer, and Adorno on American Screen Comedy.” October, no. 160 (2017): 30–50.
• Jay, Martin. “The Little Shopgirls Enter the Public Sphere.” New German Critique, no. 122 (2014): 159–69.
• Katz, Marc. “The Hotel Kracauer.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (1999): 134–52.
• Kent, James. “The Present’s Historical Task: Kracauer as Reader of Collingwood.” Critical Horizons 17, nos. 3–4 (2016): 338–57.
• Koch, Gertrud. “A Curious Realism: Redeeming Kracauer’s Film Theory Through Whitehead’s Process Philosophy.” Screen 61, no. 2 (2020): 280–87.
• Koch, Gertrud, and Jeremy Gaines. “ ‘Not Yet Accepted Anywhere’: Exile, Memory, and Image in Kracauer’s Conception of History.” New German Critique, no. 54 (1991): 95-109.
• Kouvaros, George. “The Old Greeks.” Cultural Studies Review 22, no. 2 (2016): 149–57.
• Langfor, Barry. “ ‘The strangest of station names’: Changing Trains with Kracauer and Benjamin.” New Formations, no. 61 (2007): 104–14.
• Lauterbach, Burkhart. “ ‘The New Majority’ Scholarly Folklore Studies on German White-collar Culture.” Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Societies 3, no. 2 (1997): 211–28.
• Lovett, Dustin. “The Politics of Translation in the Press: Siegfried Kracauer and Cultural Mediation in the Periodicals of the Weimar Republic.” Translation and Interpreting Studies 14, no. 2 (2019): 265–82.
• Luke, Megan R. “The Photographic Reproduction of Space: Wölfflin, Panofsky, Kracauer.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 57, no. 1 (2010): 339–43.
• Mack, Michael. “Film as Memory: Siegfried Kracauer’s Psychological History of German ‘National Culture.’ ”Journal of European Studies 30, no. 118 (2000): 157–81.
• ________. “Literature and Theory: Siegfried Kracauer’s Law, Walter Benjamin’s Allegory, and G. K. Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown.” Orbis Litterarum 54, no. 6 (1999): 399–423.
• McCann, Andrew. “Melancholy and the Masses: Siegfried Kracauer and the Media Concept.” Discourse 43, no. 1 (2021): 150–70.
• Mehring, Christine. “Siegfried Kracauer’s Theories of Photography: From Weimar to New York.” History of Photography 21, no. 2 (1997): 129–36.
• Mülder-Bach, Inka. “Cinematic Ethnology: Siegfried Kracauer’s ‘The White-collar Masses.’ ” New Left Review, no. 226 (1997): 41–56.
• Ockman, Joan. “Between Ornament and Monument: Siegfried Kracauer and the Architectural Implications of the Mass Ornament.” Thesis: wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 49, no. 3 (2003): 75–91.
• Petro, Patrice. “Kracauer’s Epistemological Shift.” New German Critique, no. 54 (1991): 127–38.
• Ponten, Frederic. “Tremor, Tick, and Trance: Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art.” New German Critique, no. 139 (2020): 141–72.
• Rabot, Jean-Martin. “Siegfried Kracauer: From Critical Sociology to Aesthetic Sociology.” Sociétés 110, no. 4 (2010): 47–56.
• Rheindorf, Markus. “Film as Language: The Politics of Early Film Theory (1920–1960).” Journal of Language and Politics 4, no. 1 (2005): 143–59.
• Richter, Gerhard. “Siegfried Kracauer and the Folds of Friendship.” German Quarterly 70, no. 3 (1997): 233–46.
• Rühse, Viola. “Luxurious Cinema Palaces in the Roaring Twenties and the Twenty-First Century: Critical Analyses of Movie Theatres by Siegfried Kracauer and Their Relevance Today.” Cultural Intertexts 10, no. 10 (2020): 13–30.
• Schlüpmann, Heide, and Drehli Robnik. “History: From ‘the Other Frankfurt School” to ‘Cinema and Experience.’ ” New German Critique, no. 122 (2014): 3–6.
• Schlüpmann, Heide, and Ishbel Flett. “Re-reading Nietzsche through Kracauer: Towards a Feminist Perspective on Film History.” Film History 6, no. 1 (1994): 80–93.
• Schroeder, Tyler. “Siegfried Kracauer and Ernst Jünger: Writing Between History and the Beyond.” New German Critique, no. 136 (2019): 167–96.
• Sieg, Christian. “Beyond Realism: Siegfried Kracauer and the Ornaments of the Ordinary.” New German Critique, no. 109 (2010): 99–118.
• von Arburg, Hans-Georg. “The Last Dwelling Before the Last: Siegfried Kracauer’s Critical Contribution to the Modernist Housing Debate in Weimar Germany.” New German Critique, no. 141 (2020): 99–140.
• von Moltke, Johannes. “The Anonymity of Siegfried Kracauer.” New German Critique, no. 132 (2017): 83–103.
• ________. “Teddie and Friedel: Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, and the Erotics of Friendship.” Criticism 51, no. 4 (2009): 683–94.
• Wigoder, Meir. “History Begins at Home: Photography and Memory in the Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Roland Barthes.” History & Memory 13, no. 1 (2001): 19–59.
• Zinfert, Maria. “On the Photographic Practice of Lili and Siegfried Kracauer: Portrait Photographs from the Estate in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach am Neckar).” Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 88, no. 4 (2013): 435–43.