Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a German Jewish social theorist, journalist, and critic. After the Nazis’ accession to power, he left Germany for Paris and emigrated to the United States in 1941. His books include The Mass Ornament, The Salaried Masses, From Caligari to Hitler, and Theory of Film.Jaeho Kang is an associate professor of communication at Seoul National University.Graeme Gilloch is a professor of sociology at Lancaster University.John Abromeit is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.

Highly recommended book.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsGeneral IntroductionPart I: Studies of Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and the Masses (1936–1940)1. Exposé. Mass and Propaganda. An Inquiry Into Fascist Propaganda2. Totalitarian Propaganda3. Abridged Restricted Schema4. Schemata5. DispositionPart II: The Caligari Complex (1943–1947)6. The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939–407. The Hitler Image8. Below the Surface: Project of a Test FilmPart III: Postwar Publics (1948–1950)9. Re-education Program for the Reich10. How and Why the Public Responds to the Propagandist11. Popular Advertisements12. A Duck Crosses Main Street13. National Types as Hollywood Presents Them14. Deluge of PicturesPart IV: Cold War Tensions (1952–1958)15. Appeals to the Near and Middle East: Implications of the Communications Studies Along the Soviet Periphery16. Attitudes Toward Various Communist Types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia17. Proposal for a Research Project Designed to Promote the Use of Qualitative Analysis in the Social Sciences18. The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis19. On the Relation of Analysis to the Situational Factors in Case Studies20. The Social Research Center on the Campus: Its Significance for the Social Sciences and Its Relations to the University and Society at LargeAppendix 1: T. W. Adorno, “Report on the Work ‘Totalitarian Propaganda in Germany and Italy’ by Siegfried Kracauer, 1–106”Appendix 2: John Abromeit, “Siegfried Kracauer, and the Early Frankfurt School’s Analysis of Fascism as Right-Wing Populism”BibliographySourcesIndex

Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a German Jewish social theorist, journalist, and critic. After the Nazis’ accession to power, he left Germany for Paris and emigrated to the United States in 1941. His books include The Mass Ornament, The Salaried Masses, From Caligari to Hitler, and Theory of Film.Jaeho Kang is an associate professor of communication at Seoul National University.Graeme Gilloch is a professor of sociology at Lancaster University.John Abromeit is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.

Highly recommended book.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsGeneral IntroductionPart I: Studies of Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and the Masses (1936–1940)1. Exposé. Mass and Propaganda. An Inquiry Into Fascist Propaganda2. Totalitarian Propaganda3. Abridged Restricted Schema4. Schemata5. DispositionPart II: The Caligari Complex (1943–1947)6. The Conquest of Europe on the Screen: The Nazi Newsreel, 1939–407. The Hitler Image8. Below the Surface: Project of a Test FilmPart III: Postwar Publics (1948–1950)9. Re-education Program for the Reich10. How and Why the Public Responds to the Propagandist11. Popular Advertisements12. A Duck Crosses Main Street13. National Types as Hollywood Presents Them14. Deluge of PicturesPart IV: Cold War Tensions (1952–1958)15. Appeals to the Near and Middle East: Implications of the Communications Studies Along the Soviet Periphery16. Attitudes Toward Various Communist Types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia17. Proposal for a Research Project Designed to Promote the Use of Qualitative Analysis in the Social Sciences18. The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis19. On the Relation of Analysis to the Situational Factors in Case Studies20. The Social Research Center on the Campus: Its Significance for the Social Sciences and Its Relations to the University and Society at LargeAppendix 1: T. W. Adorno, “Report on the Work ‘Totalitarian Propaganda in Germany and Italy’ by Siegfried Kracauer, 1–106”Appendix 2: John Abromeit, “Siegfried Kracauer, and the Early Frankfurt School’s Analysis of Fascism as Right-Wing Populism”BibliographySourcesIndex