Weimar Controversies
Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer
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Beschreibung
In this book, political conflicts over occultism, nudism, and popular literature reveal themselves as toxic ingredients to the demise of the Weimar Republic.
In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflict?Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.
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Peter S. Fisher
Themen in »Weimar Controversies«
German Studies German Studies History History Popular Culture Popular Culture Weimar Republic Weimar Republic Siegfried Kracauer Siegfried Kracauer Cultural History Cultural History German History German History Critical Theory