TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisher,Peter S.
TI  - Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer 
T2  - Edition Kulturwissenschaft
SN  - 9783837651461
U1  - 306.094 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - Critical Theory
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - German History
KW  - History
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Siegfried Kracauer
KW  - Weimar Republic
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
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