“The False Appearance of Totality is Extinguished”: Orson Welles's The Trial and Benjamin's Allegorical Image

Film-Philosophy 23 (1):17-34 (2019)
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This article seeks to renegotiate Walter Benjamin's conception of allegory as an image that is a “fragment [… in which] the false appearance of totality is extinguished” in the cont...

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10.3366/film.2019.0096

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama.Walter Benjamin - 1978 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (1):103-104.

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