RECEPTION IN DISTRACTION

Walter Benjamin and Art

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-13

  Eiland, Howard ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (15)

1. Bertolt Brecht, Schriften zum Theater (cited in the text as ST), ed. Siegfried Unseld (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1957), p. 170
2. Brecht on Theatre (cited in the text as BT), trans. John Willett (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), p. 203.
3. Norbert Bolz and Willem van Reijen, Walter Benjamin, trans. Laimdota Mazzarins (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996), pp. 41-2.
4. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Robert Langbaum (New York: New American Library, 1964), pp. 95-6, 111.
5. Miriam Hansen, ‘Benjamin, Cinema and Experience: The Blue Flower in the Land of Technology’, New German Critique 40 (1987), pp. 218-19.
6. Michael W. Jennings, Dialectical Images: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Literary Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 156-8.
7. In Walter Benjamin: Zwischen den Stuhlen (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1981), p. 273.
8. Siegfried Kracauer, ‘Kult der Zerstreuung’ (1926), in Das Ornament der Masse (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977), p. 313
9. ‘Cult of Distraction’, in The Mass Ornament, trans. Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 325.
10. S. M. Eisenstein, Towards a Theory of Montage [1937-1940], trans. Michael Glenny (London: British Film Institute, 1991), p. 231.
11. Sergei Eisenstein, ‘Perspectives’ [1929] and ‘The Dynamic Square’ [1931], both translated by Jay Leyda, in Film Essays, ed. Jay Leyda (1968; rpt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 41, 61.
12. Eisenstein, ‘The Unexpected’ [1928], in Film Form, trans. Jay Leyda (New York: Harcourt, 1949), p. 27.
13. Theodor W. Adorno, Asthetische Theorie (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1970), pp. 231-4.
14. Henri Bergson, Matière et mémoire (1896; rpt. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1939), p. 170.
15. Martin Heidegger, Zur Sache des Denkens (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1976), p. 32