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Quotidian Films and the 'World That is Ours': Kracauer's Remedy for the Fragmentation of Mass Consciousness Chris Schuessler N00418975 Schuc975@newschool.edu Siegfried Kracauer's writings on film, and his outline of the decline of a common cultural foundation based on religious beliefs, are rooted in his attempt to soothe a culture that he describes as disoriented and fractured. Kracauer, along with Benjamin and Adorno, are essentially humanists, and their critiques and analyses of the workings of mass culture are motivated by an attempt to identify the sources of the chaos and confusion of the masses. For Kracauer, film is the primary source, and he plunges deep into its manifestations to both point out its splintering and controlling effects and its potential for revealing truths about our relationship to the material world. Kracauer's ideology of film theory is based in his belief that, for the filmmaker and photographer, artistic tendencies should not attempt to overwhelm reality. He delineates the...

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