In addition to the collection which contains those essays, and which shares its name with the latter, titled The Mass Ornament, this thinker argued that the title work of art spawned depictions of both tyrants and "mute chaos," and traced the history of a certain art form "from Caligari to Hitler."
This thinker argued that the title type of book succeeds because it satisfies a need in the readers, many of whom "strive to avoid the confrontation of outdated ideals with contemporary social reality," in another essay, titled "On Bestsellers and Their Audience." In another work, this thinker argued that the Tiller Girls represent a change in the "body culture," and constitute a "linear system" which no longer has any "erotic meaning, but at best points to the locus of the erotic." In addition to the collection which contains those essays, and which shares its name with the latter, titled The Mass Ornament, this thinker argued that the title work of art spawned depictions of both tyrants and "mute chaos," and traced the history of a certain art form "from Caligari to Hitler." This thinker's magnum opus offered what he called a "material aesthetics" of the title art for, and operated on the assumption that this form was "essentially an extension of photography," and "come[s] into its own when [it] record[s] and reveal[s] physical reality." For 10 points, identify this erstwhile member of the Frankfurt school who wrote Theory of Film.
This thinker argued that the title type of book succeeds because it satisfies a need in the readers, many of whom "strive to avoid the confrontation of outdated ideals with contemporary social reality," in another essay, titled "On Bestsellers and Their Audience.
Siegfried Kracauer