The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby

ISBN-13: 9780367680268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 230 str.

Giannakopoulou, Georgia

Opis

Exploring his unique and interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation of modern metropolitan society and culture, this book emphasises David Frisby’s legacy in highlighting the role of the social researcher as a collector, reader, observer, detective and archivist of the phenomena and ideas that exemplify the modern metropolis.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part 1: Modernity, Metropolis and Method;  1. Critical Sociology: The Methodological Controversy;  2. Siegfried Kracauer’s Metaphysics of the Passage and Methodology of Social Science;  3. The Metropolis and Emotional Life: Experience, Rifts and Knowledge;  4. The Social Experience of Urban Life: The Aesthetical Interpretation of Places and Ambiances;  Part 2: Fragments and Faces;  5. The Street and the Fragment Aesthetics of Experience; Aesthetics of the Particular in David Frisby;  6. Cinematic ‘Fragments of Modernity’: Film and Society Revisited;  7. On the Face of Things. Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer on Physiognomy and Film;  Part 3: Cityscapes;  8. Fragments of Cityscapes;  9. Urban Aestheticization Processes: Cityscape, Landscape and Image;  10. Architecture and Fashion in fin-de-siécle Vienna;  Part 4: Haunts;  11. Flâneurs, Detectives and Architects;  12. Cotton and Other Threads;  13. In Search of Lost Streets;  Part 5: Figures;  14. 'Hamlet wird Detektiv': Reflections on Benjamin, Kracauer and (Neo-)Noir;  15. The Collector's Touch: The Task of the Cultural Critic in the Age of Digital Media;  16. Unmasking the Flâneur