German Siegfried Kracauer published a highly academic masterpiece on realism film aesthetics in 1960____.

Answer: "The Nature of Film"

Analysis: Siegfried Kracauer is recognized as the most representative film theorist of Western realism. The book "The Nature of Cinema" is his most influential representative work. In the book, he established a complete and rigorous film theoretical system: starting from the basic proposition that film is "the restoration of material reality", he clarified that the entire function of film is to record and remind us of the world around us, rather than to tell fictional stories. . He concluded that only by taking a camera to real life to discover and photograph typical accidental worlds can we make films that conform to the nature of movies.

Kracauer is considered an important representative of Western realism film theory