The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media / Walter Benjamin ; edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin ; translated by Edmund Jephcott ... [et al.].

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Main Author:
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Other Authors:
Jennings, Michael William
Doherty, Brigid
Levin, Thomas Y.
Jephcott, E. F. N.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Knowledge > Mass media.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Translations into English.
Art and society.
Photography of art.
Mass media > Philosophy.
Arts, Modern > 20th century > Philosophy.
Format: Book
The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media /
Table of Contents:
  • I. The Production, Reproduction, and Reception of the Work of Art
  • 1. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version
  • 2. Theory of Distraction
  • 3. To the Planetarium
  • 4. Garlanded Entrance
  • 5. The Rigorous Study of Art
  • 6. Imperial Panorama
  • 7. The Telephone
  • 8. The Author as Producer
  • 9. Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century
  • 10. Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian
  • 11. Review of Sternberger's Panorama
  • II. Script, Image, Script-Image
  • 12. Attested Auditor of Books
  • 13. These Surfaces for Rent
  • 14. The Antinomies of Allegorical Exegesis
  • 15. The Ruin
  • 16. Dismemberment of Language
  • 17. Graphology Old and New
  • III. Painting and Graphics
  • 18. Painting and the Graphic Arts
  • 19. On Painting, or Sign and Mark
  • 20. A Glimpse into the World of Children's Books
  • 21. Dream Kitsch
  • 22. Moonlit Nights on the Rue La Boerie
  • 23. Chambermaids' Romances of the Past Century
  • 24. Antoine Wiertz: Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head
  • 25. Some Remarks on Folk Art
  • 26. Chinese Paintings at the Bibliotheque Nationale
  • IV. Photography
  • 27. News about Flowers
  • 28. Little History of Photography
  • 29. Letter from Paris (2): Painting and Photography
  • 30. Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuvieme siecle
  • V. Film
  • 31. On the Present Situation of Russian Film
  • 32. Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz
  • 33. Chaplin
  • 34. Chaplin in Retrospect
  • 35. Mickey Mouse
  • 36. The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression
  • VI. The Publishing Industry and Radio
  • 37. Journalism
  • 38. A Critique of the Publishing Industry
  • 39. The Newspaper
  • 40. Karl Kraus
  • 41. Reflections on Radio
  • 42. Theater and Radio
  • 43. Conversation with Ernst Schoen
  • 44. Two Types of Popularity: Fundamental Reflections on a Radio Play
  • 45. On the Minute.

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