TLRH | Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film

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 of modern technology. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/