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1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; PART I. INTRODUCTION; Introduction; 1. The Rise of the Mass Media: Modern Communications and Cultural Traditions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; A New Cultural Constellation: Producers, Consumers, and the Marketplace; The Commercial Press; Early Film; Conserving Sound: Phonograph and Gramophone; Cultural Authority and the Entertainment Market; PART II. TAMING MASS CULTURE: STRATEGIES OF CONTROL AND REFORM; Introduction; 2. Reasserting Control: The Regulation of Mass Culture |
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'Smut and Trash': Censorship and Youth Protection in the EmpireMorality and Censorship in the Republic; State and Communal Ownership; 3. Attempting Reform: Legitimation, Education, and Uplifting Tastes; Commercial Culture and Social Reform; New Media and New Genres; PART III. MASS CULTURE, DIVIDED AUDIENCES: MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC; Introduction; 4. Technology and Purchasing Power: Media Availability and Audiences; Cinema Distribution and Household Budgets; New Technologies and New Listeners: Gramophone and Radio Audiences |
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5. Meeting Demand: Consumer Preference and Social DifferenceBetween Popular Appeal and Particularism: The Print Media; Edification and Amusement: Radio Programming and its Critics; Cinema Programmes and Film Preferences; 6. Media Publics Between Fragmentation and Integration; Social Segregation and the Cinema; The Fractured Press; Listening in Public and Private; PART IV. MASS MEDIA AND MASS POLITICS FROM THE EMPIRE TO THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC; Introduction; 7. Propaganda and the Modern Public; From Press Policy to 'Patriotic Education': State Propaganda in Imperial Germany |
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Propaganda, the Modern Public, and the Experience of Total WarAdvertising, Mass Psychology, and the Power of Symbols; 8. Republicans, Radicals, and the Battle of Images; Publicity for the Republic: From Propaganda to Instruction; The Radical Onslaught; Mainstream in Crisis: The Promise and Perils of Propaganda; PART V. MASS CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH: PROPAGANDA, ENTERTAINMENT, AND NATIONAL MOBILIZATION; Introduction; 9. Political Control and Commercial Concentration Under the Nazis; National Socialist Restructuring of Media and Leisure |
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Commercial Concentration, Expansion, and the Talking FilmRadio and Recording: State Control and Media Convergence; The Print Media: Abolition, Steering, and Standardization; 10. Entertaining the National Community; From Agitation to 'State Propaganda': Politics, Marketing, and Entertainment; 'Film for All': Cinema and Society in the 1930s; Between Instrumentalization and Americanization: Press and Advertising; 'Just don't be boring': Nazi Radio; 11. The Media and the Second World War: From Integration to Disintegration; Defending the Attack: Nazi Remilitarization and the Media |
| Summary |
'Media and the Making of Modern Germany' provides a full account of the expansion of the mass media in Germany up to the Second World War, examining how the rise of film, radio, recorded music, popular press, and advertising fitted into the wider development of social, political, and cultural life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-415) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Mass media -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Mass media.
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Tyskland -- historia -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet.
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Massmedia -- Tyskland.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054584
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| Subject |
Germany.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191557293 |
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0191557293 |
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9780199278213 |
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0199278210 |
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9786611852979 |
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6611852972 |
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9780191707933 |
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0191707937 |
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