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1 online resource (xxvi, 235 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in European culture and history |
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Studies in European culture and history.
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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 |
| Summary |
For decades after the Second World War, historians and writers depicted cultural life in Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933) as an unstable mixture of avant-garde experimentation, decadence, and proto-fascist tendencies. Their limited definition of "culture" as a canon of works by elites hindered the study of everyday cultural forms. A younger generation of scholars now takes the broad view of culture as not merely the work of elite artists and intellectuals, but as constructed in everyday practice and thorough popular participation. This is the first book to offer an accessible cross-sectio |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Art and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY.
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Art and society
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Intellectual life
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Popular culture
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Social conditions
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Weimarer Republik
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Massenkultur
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Lebensgefühl
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Weimarer Republik.
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Kultur.
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054657
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Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054589
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Germany
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Tyskland -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- 1900-talet.
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Tyskland -- historia -- 1918-1933 (Weimarrepubliken)
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Deutschland
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Deutschland.
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History
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, John A. (John Alexander), 1962-
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| ISBN |
9780230117259 |
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0230117252 |
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9781349292158 |
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134929215X |
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9781283028103 |
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1283028107 |
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