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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film
Description: 23 Feb 2021
Dr Sebastian Truskolaski (King’s College London) in conversation with the author of the recently published book Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film, Dr Daniel Mourenza (TCD Hispanic Studies).
The book is the first monograph devoted to analysing the writings on film that German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin produced during his life. It examines his writings on Soviet and German cinema, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse, and situates these texts as part of Benjamin’s thinking, especially in relation to his concept of ‘anthropological materialism’, which explores the changes that the human body experienced with the arrival...