1st Edition
The Detective of Modernity Essays on the Work of David Frisby
Introduction
Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch
Part 1: Modernity, Metropolis and Method
1. Critical Sociology: The Methodological Controversy
Matthias Benzer
2. Siegfried Kracauer’s Metaphysics of the Passage and Methodology of Social Science
Changnam Lee
3. The Metropolis and Emotional Life: Experience, Rifts and Knowledge
Massimo Cerulo and Antonio Rafele
4. The Social Experience of Urban Life: The Aesthetical Interpretation of Places and Ambiances
Fabio La Rocca
Part 2: Fragments and Faces
5. The Street and the Fragment Aesthetics of Experience; Aesthetics of the Particular in David Frisby
Esther Leslie
6. Cinematic ‘Fragments of Modernity’: Film and Society Revisited
Spiros Gangas
7. On the Face of Things. Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer on Physiognomy and Film
Stéphane Symons
Part 3: Cityscapes
8. Fragments of Cityscapes
Günter Gassner
9. Urban Aestheticization Processes: Cityscape, Landscape and Image
Mike Featherstone
10. Architecture and Fashion in fin-de-siécle Vienna
Iain-Boyd Whyte
Part 4: Haunts
11. Flâneurs, Detectives and Architects
Christian Hermansen
12. Cotton and Other Threads
Janet Wolff
13. In Search of Lost Streets
Elizabeth Wilson
Part 5: Figures
14. "Hamlet wird Detektiv": Reflections on Benjamin, Kracauer and (Neo-)Noir
Graeme Gilloch
15. The Collector's Touch: The Task of the Cultural Critic in the Age of Digital Media
Jaeho Kang
16. Unmasking the Flâneur
Georgia Giannakopoulou
Biography
Georgia Giannakopoulou is Associate Lecturer in Sociology and the International Honors Program at ACG-Deree, The American College of Greece and an Affiliate Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Graeme Gilloch is Professor in Sociology at Lancaster University and the author of Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations; Siegfried Kracauer, Our Companion in Misfortune; and Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City.
