Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer (Culture & Theory)

Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer (Culture & Theory)
by: Peter S. Fisher (Author)
Publisher:transcript publishing
Publication Date: July 15, 2020
Language:English
Print Length:240 pages
ISBN-10:3837651460
ISBN-13:9783837651461
Book Description
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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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. Read more