Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Siegfried Kracauer
Born: February 8, 1889
Died: November 26, 1966 (aged 77)
Bio: Siegfried Kracauer was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
Known for:
- Theory of film (1960)
- From Caligari to Hitler (1947)
- The mass ornament
- History, the last things before the last