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

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Editors and authors
Acknowledgements
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: An aesthetic interpretation of places and ambiences
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-siècle 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 Kracauer, Benjamin and (neo-)noir
	15. The collector's touch: The task of the cultural critic in the age of digital media
	16. Unmasking the flâneur
Index