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- Title
Room-for-Play: Benjamin's Gamble with Cinema.
- Authors
Hansen, Miriam Bratu
- Abstract
Examines Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Productibility," wherein he explores the aesthetic possibilities of the technological media, in particular, how film might read similarities that are no longer, or perhaps not yet, sensuously perceivable, and how such a reading might translate into collective and public experience in the cinema. Speculation on the reason Benjamin kept revising the text between 1936 and 1939; Problems with Benjamin's argument that the only remaining strategy for intellectuals on the left is to combat the fascist aestheticization of politics with the politicization of art as advanced by communism; Discussion on the term Spiel in Benjamin's writings; Background of Theodor W. Adorno's essay "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening," the earliest published reference to Benjamin's thesis on play and semblance.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; MOTION pictures; INTELLECTUALS; FASCIST aesthetics; POLITICAL science; COMMUNISM; ADORNO, Theodor W., 1903-1969; THEATER
- Publication
October, 2004, Issue 109, p3
- ISSN
0162-2870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/0162287041886511