“No longer a European observer”
Exílio, cinema e crítica cultural na escrita jornalística de Siegfried Kracauer
Abstract
The article aims to analyse the narrative construction of the essay Why France Liked Our Films (1942), written by Jewish-German intellectual Siegfried Kracauer, and published in the National Board of Review Magazine, the oldest cinema magazine in the United States. With extensive experience in journalism, Kracauer worked for years as editor at the influential German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, running the feuilleton column. Several publications from Kracauer in American periodicals, in exile in USA since 1941, illustrate some aspect of the migratory phenomenon. In this sense, his journalistic writing proposes elements that allow us to observe, within a cinematographic context, aspects of his spatial and socio-cultural references, in a process that involves and reaches the centre of his identity construction.
