Weimar publics/Weimar subjects
Subtitle: rethinking the political culture of Germany in the 1920s
By: edited by Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt & Kristin McGuire.
Contributors: Canning, Kathleen.; Barndt, Kerstin.; McGuire, Kristin.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781845456894
Subjects: Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Social conflict -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Social change -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kathleen Canning; title: pt. 1. Defeat and the legacy of war; title: The return of the undead : Weimar cinema and the Great War / Anton Kaes; title: The work of art and the problem of politics in Berlin Dada / Brigid Doherty; title: The secret history of photomontage : on the origins of the composite form and the Weimar photomontages of Marianne Brandt / Elizabeth Otto; title: pt. 2. New citizens/new subjectivities; title: Mother, citizens, and consumers : female readers in Weimar Germany / Kerstin Barndt; title: Claiming citizenship : suffrage and subjectivity in Germany after the First World War / Kathleen Canning; title: Feminist politics beyond the Reichstag : a radical vision of reform in the Weimar Republic / Kristin McGuire; title: Producing Jews : maternity, eugenics, and the embodiment of the Jewish subject / Sharon Gillerman; title: pt. 3. Symbols, rituals, and discourses of democracy; title: Reforming the Reich : democratic symbols and rituals in the Weimar Republic / Manuela Achilles; title: High expectations/deep disappointment : structures of the public perception of politics in the Weimar Republic / Thomas Mergel; title: Contested narratives of the Weimar Republic : the case of the "Kutisker-Barmat scandal" / Martin Geyer; title: Political violence, contested public space, and reasserted masculinity in Weimar Germany / Dirk Schumann; title: pt. 4. Publics, publicity, and mass culture; title: "A self-representation of the masses" : Siegfried Kracauer's curious Americanism / Miriam Hansen; title: Neither masses nor individuals : representations of the collective in inter-war German culture / Stefan Jonsson; title: Capital culture in decline : inflation and the distress of intellectuals / Bernd Widdig; title: pt. 5. Weimar topographies; title: Defining the nation in crisis : citizenship policy in the early Weimar Republic / Annemarie Sammartino; title: Gender and colonial politics after the Versailles Treaty / Lora Wildenthal; title: The economy of experience in Weimar Germany / Peter Fritzsche.