Pleasure and power in Nazi Germany
By: edited by Corey Ross, Pamela Swett, Fabrice d'Almeida
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780230271685
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Political culture; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; Social control; Popular culture; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Political stability; HISTORY / Social History; Pleasure; History; Amusements; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; Power (Social sciences)
Description: "Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain, and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics. This book explores the relationship between the rationing of pleasures as a means of political stabilization and the pressure on the Nazi regime to cater to popular cultural expectations"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pleasure and power in Nazi Germany : an introduction / P.E. Swett, C. Ross & F. d'Almeida; title: pt. 1. Consumption and the privileges of pleasure; title: Driving, shopping, and smoking : the Society for Consumer Research and the politics of pleasure in Nazi Germany / S.J. Wiesen; title: Selling sexual pleasure in 1930s Germany / P.E. Swett; title: Luxury and fashion under national socialism / F. d'Almeida; title: pt. 2. Discipline and distraction : entertainments and the aesthetics of pleasure; title: The structure of aesthetic pleasure in the Nazi reception of Goethe's Faust / D. Pan; title: "German humour" in books : the attractiveness and political significance of laughter during the Nazi era / P. Merziger; title: Pleasure, practicality, and propaganda : popular magazines in Nazi Germany, 1933-39 / K.C. Führer; title: Radio, film, and morale : wartime entertainment between mobilization and distraction / C. Ross; title: pt. 3. The pleasures of community and consensus; title: Seeing the world : photography, photojournalism, and visual pleasure in the Third Reich / E. Harvey; title: The pleasures of being a "political soldier" : Nazi functionaries and their service to the "movement" / D. Mühlenfeld; title: The pleasure of terror : belonging through genocide / T. Kühne; title: The pleasures of opposition : leisure, solidarity, and resistance of a life-reform group / M. Roseman.