The detective of modernity : essays on the work of David Frisby /: essays on the work of David Frisby. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch.
• Editors: Giannakopoulou, Georgia, 1975-; Gilloch, Graeme
• Contents: Introduction Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch Part 1: Modernity, Metropolis and Method 1. Critical Sociology: The Methodological Controversy Matthias Benzer 2. Siegfried Kracauer’s Metaphysics of the Passage and Methodology of Social Science Changnam Lee 3. The Metropolis and Emotional Life: Experience, Rifts and Knowledge Massimo Cerulo and Antonio Rafele 4. The Social Experience of Urban Life: The Aesthetical Interpretation of Places and Ambiances Fabio La Rocca Part 2: Fragments and Faces 5. The Street and the Fragment Aesthetics of Experience; Aesthetics of the Particular in David Frisby Esther Leslie 6. Cinematic ‘Fragments of Modernity’: Film and Society Revisited Spiros Gangas 7. On the Face of Things. Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer on Physiognomy and Film Stéphane Symons Part 3: Cityscapes 8. Fragments of Cityscapes Günter Gassner 9. Urban Aestheticization Processes: Cityscape, Landscape and Image Mike Featherstone 10. Architecture and Fashion in fin-de-siécle Vienna Iain Boyd-Whyte Part 4: Haunts 11. Flâneurs, Detectives and Architects Christian Hermansen 12. Cotton and Other Threads Janet Wolff 13. In Search of Lost Streets Elizabeth Wilson Part 5: Figures 14. "Hamlet wird Detektiv ": Reflections on Benjamin, Kracauer and (Neo-)Noir Graeme Gilloch 15. The Collector's Touch: The Task of the Cultural Critic in the Age of Digital Media Jaeho Kang 16. Unmasking the Flâneur Georgia Giannakopoulou
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 301.092; Social sciences -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429574757; 9780429576867; 9780429572647; 9780429201370
• Related ISBNs: 9780367192563
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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