Besides Theory of Film, which saw him conclude that film was meant to record physical reality, he may best known for an essay that which saw him describe "sexless bodies in bathing suits," who served as products of "American distraction factories.
This man claimed that the detective novel "transforms an ungraspable life into a translatable analogue of actual reality" in an essay entitled "The Hotel Lobby." In another of his essays, he claimed that the biography is the only seemingly necessary prose form of the established bourgeoisie. This man divided his home country's cinematic history into four periods in a 1947 work entitled From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, while another work saw him specifically exclude color films and cartoons from his analysis. Besides Theory of Film, which saw him conclude that film was meant to record physical reality, he may best known for an essay that which saw him describe "sexless bodies in bathing suits," who served as products of "American distraction factories." For 10 points, identify this German thinker who influenced the Frankfurt School with his analysis of the "Tiller Girls," which he linked to standardized mass culture in the essay "The Mass Ornament."
This man claimed that the detective novel "transforms an ungraspable life into a translatable analogue of actual reality" in an essay entitled "The Hotel Lobby.
{Siegfried Kracauer}