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Weimar Controversies : Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer / Peter S. Fisher.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 224Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837651461
  • 9783839451465
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.094
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Occultism: Empowerment or Menace? -- Chapter Two. Colportage: Harmless Pleasure or Dangerous Diversion? -- Chapter Three. The Schund Law: Defending Morality or Undermining Freedom? -- Chapter Four. Detective Pulps: Modeling Justice or Glamorizing Crime? -- Chapter Five. Nudism: Weimar Renaissance or National Degeneration? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflicts?Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Occultism: Empowerment or Menace? -- Chapter Two. Colportage: Harmless Pleasure or Dangerous Diversion? -- Chapter Three. The Schund Law: Defending Morality or Undermining Freedom? -- Chapter Four. Detective Pulps: Modeling Justice or Glamorizing Crime? -- Chapter Five. Nudism: Weimar Renaissance or National Degeneration? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflicts?Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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