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Abstract

The present article aims to present notes on the sociology of cinema exposed by Siegfried Kracauer and his critical actuality. Cinema more than ever occupies a place of centrality in contemporary cultural production, being one of the main cultural artifacts that organize the recent social experience. Kracauer in his sociological essays "The mass ornament: Weimar essays" (2009) and in his great work of critical analysis of German film "From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film" (1988), brings to the surface a methodology of cinematographic analysis and of the images that are produced in these products, by relating elements that compose the content of these works with the form that it assumes and elements external to works - their historical social conditions, as well as the relation between cultural production and social values . This way the sociology of cinema proposed by Siegfried Kracauer presents methodological tools that allow to analyze contemporary cinematographic and audiovisual works from the relation between images and social experience.