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'''Siegfried Kracauer''' (1889-1966) was one of the twentieth century's [[German]] [[Jewish]] cultural critics, scholar, journalist, and theorist of film. He is best understood as a charter member of the extraordinary constellation of [[Weimar]]-era intellectuals which has been dubbed retroactively the [[Frankfurt School]]. After [[Hitler]] came into power in [[Germany]], he emigrated first into collaborationist [[France]] and then, after eight years of exile there, into America in 1941 where he continued to spread the ideas of the Franfurt School. He was able to eke out a living in [[New York]] as a freelance writer, publishing articles in a wide range of journals (including the ''Nation'', ''Commentary'', ''the New Republic'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Public Opinion Qiuirlcrly'', and the ''[[New York Times]]'' Book Review). He was preparing reports i.a. for the ''Bureau of Applied Social Research'' at [[Columbia University]] and enjounyng grants i.a. from [[Rockefeller Foundation]].

'''Siegfried Kracauer''' (1889-1966) was one of the twentieth century's [[German]] [[Jewish]] cultural critics, scholar, journalist, and theorist of film. He is best understood as a charter member of the extraordinary constellation of [[Weimar]]-era intellectuals which has been dubbed retroactively the [[Frankfurt School]]. After [[Hitler]] came into power in [[Germany]], Kracauer emigrated first into collaborationist [[France]] and then, after eight years of exile there, into America in 1941 where he continued to spread the ideas of the Franfurt School. He was able to eke out a living in [[New York]] as a freelance writer, publishing articles in a wide range of journals (including the ''Nation'', ''Commentary'', ''the New Republic'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Public Opinion Qiuirlcrly'', and the ''[[New York Times]]'' Book Review). He was preparing reports i.a. for the ''Bureau of Applied Social Research'' at [[Columbia University]] and enjounyng grants i.a. from [[Rockefeller Foundation]].

Kracauer was also described as an essayist-provocateur on a wide variety of social and cultural themes.

Kracauer was also described as an essayist-provocateur on a wide variety of social and cultural themes.