Siegfried Kracauer’s Theory of Film

In this video, I introduce Siegfried Kracauer’s Theory of Film (1960), his major work of realist film theory. First, the video considers this book’s relation to Kracauer’s previous works, especially as it’s been received within film studies. The majority of video explores some of the central tenets of the film medium that Kracauer calls its “revealing“ qualities and its “affinities.“