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Siegfried Kracauer
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German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 23
Top works
- From Caligari To Hitler A Psychological History Of The German Film
- Ornement de la Masse
- Ginster
- Los empleados
- Jacques Offenbach Ou Le Secret Du Second Empire
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 7
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
· 2017 · cited 6,293x
- MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications
· 2011 · cited 3,894x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,320x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,821x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>
· 2021 · cited 2,488x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1889-02-08 ) February 8, 1889, Frankfurt am Main , German Empire , (present-day Germany)
- Died
- November 26, 1966 (1966-11-26) (aged 77), New York City , United States
- Occupation
- Journalist , sociologist , film theorist
- Literary movement
- Frankfurt School
- Notable works
- From Caligari to Hitler (1947)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Siegfried Kracauer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Siegfried Kracauer (/ˈkrækaʊ.ər/; German: [ˈkʁakaʊɐ]; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema.
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siegfried Kracauer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.