CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART I. KRACAUER
1. Film, Medium of a Disintegrating World
2. Curious Americanism
PART II. BENJAMIN
3. Actuality, Antinomies
4. Aura: The Appropriation of a Concept
5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball
6. Micky-Maus
7. Play-Form of Second Nature
PART III. ADORNO
8. The Question of Film Aesthetics
PART IV. KRACAUER IN EXILE
9. Theory of Film
Notes
Index
