The Detective of Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on the Work of David Frisby
Redaktion: Giannakopoulou, Georgia; Gilloch, Graeme

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring his unique and interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation of modern metropolitan society and culture, this book emphasises David Frisby's legacy in highlighting the role of the social researcher as a collector, reader, observer, detective and archivist of the phenomena and ideas that exemplify the modern metropolis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429574757
• Artikelnr.: 60584582

Autorenporträt

Georgia Giannakopoulou is Associate Lecturer in Sociology and the International Honors Program at ACG-Deree, The American College of Greece and an A¿liate Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Graeme Gilloch is Professor in Sociology at Lancaster University and the author of Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations; Siegfried Kracauer, Our Companion in Misfortune; and Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Modernity, Metropolis and Method
1. Critical Sociology: The Methodological Controversy
2. Siegfried Kracauer's Metaphysics of the Passage and Methodology of Social Science
3. The Metropolis and Emotional Life: Experience, Rifts and Knowledge
4. The Social Experience of Urban Life: The Aesthetical Interpretation of Places and Ambiances
Part 2: Fragments and Faces
5. The Street and the Fragment Aesthetics of Experience
Aesthetics of the Particular in David Frisby
6. Cinematic 'Fragments of Modernity': Film and Society Revisited
7. On the Face of Things. Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer on Physiognomy and Film
Part 3: Cityscapes
8. Fragments of Cityscapes
9. Urban Aestheticization Processes: Cityscape, Landscape and Image
10. Architecture and Fashion in fin-de-siécle Vienna
Part 4: Haunts
11. Flâneurs, Detectives and Architects
12. Cotton and Other Threads
13. In Search of Lost Streets
Part 5: Figures
14. 'Hamlet wird Detektiv': Reflections on Benjamin, Kracauer and (Neo-)Noir
15. The Collector's Touch: The Task of the Cultural Critic in the Age of Digital Media
16. Unmasking the Flâneur