Weimar Culture Revisited [electronic resource] /
Williams, J.author.
Williams, John A.(John Alexander),1962-
Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revolution and the Weimar avant-garde : contesting the politics of art, 1919-1924 / Debbie Lewer -- Cinema, radio, and 'mass culture' in the Weimar Republic : between shared experience and social division / Corey Ross -- Blue angel, brown culture : the politics of film reception in Göttingen / David Imhoof -- Middle-class heroes : anti-nationalism in the popular adventure films of the Weimar Republic / Ofer Ashkenazi -- Exotic attractions and imperialist fantasies in Weimar youth literature / Luke Springman -- How can a war be holy? : Weimar attitudes toward eastern spirituality / Tom Neuhaus -- Visualizing the republic : state representation and public ritual in Weimar Germany / Nadine Rossol -- The party does indeed fight like a man : the construction of a masculine ideal in the Weimar Communist Party / Sara Ann Sewell -- Sweat equity : sports and the self-made German / Erik Jensen -- Friends of nature : the culture of working-class hiking / John A. Williams.
Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era. .
Europe, Central—History.
History, Modern.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Civilization—History.
Europe—History.
Social history.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Modern History.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Cultural History.
European History.
Social History.