Mass Media Culture And Society In Twentieth Century Germany

Author : K. Führer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230800939
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany written by K. Führer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact the media has on German society under varying political systems, and how the media is shaped by wider social, political and cultural context.

Author : Corey Ross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614947
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and the Making of Modern Germany written by Corey Ross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entertainments, and none have exerted a more profound influence on the nature of modern politics. Nowhere in Europe were the tensions and controversies surrounding the rise of mass culture more politically charged than in Germany-debates that played fatefully into the hands of the radical right. Corey Ross provides the first general 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. Spanning the period from the late nineteenth century to the Third Reich, Media and the Making of Modern Germany shows how the social impact and meaning of 'mass culture' were by no means straightforward or homogenizing, but rather changed under different political and economic circumstances. By locating the rapid expansion of communications media and commercial entertainments firmly within their broader social and political context, Ross sheds new light on the relationship between mass media, social change, and political culture during this tumultuous period in German history.

Author : Lyn Gorman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631222354
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Society in the Twentieth Century written by Lyn Gorman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing mainly on the development of newspapers, film, radio, television, and the Internet in the United States and Western Europe, Media and Society in the Twentieth Century fills a critical need for students and scholars by offering a historical introduction to the mass media in our time. Provides an up-to-date, readable, and informative survey of the history of mass media in the twentieth century. Offers a historical and comparative perspective to emphasize the importance of contemporary media and to explain why particular media systems exist. Focuses on the development of newspapers, film, radio, and television for purposes of entertainment, information, and persuasion. Explores recent media developments, including the Internet and globalization, from a historical perspective.

Author : A. Goodbody
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589626
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature written by A. Goodbody and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces shifting attitudes towards science and technology, nature and the environment in Twentieth-century Germany. It approaches them through discussion of a range of literary texts and explores the philosophical influences on them and their political contexts, and asks what part novels and plays have played in environmental debate.

Author : William John Niven
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132239
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Culture in Twentieth-century Germany written by William John Niven and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine this crucial relationship between politics and culture in Germany, not only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the effects are less obvious.

Author : Kara L. Ritzheimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132045
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Germany written by Kara L. Ritzheimer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legal and cultural history of censorship, youth protection, and national identity in early twentieth-century Germany.

Author : Brendan Fay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350114820
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Music in Weimar Germany written by Brendan Fay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hitler's notorious fondness for Wagner's operas to classical music's role in fuelling German chauvinism in the era of the world wars, many observers have pointed to a distinct relationship between German culture and reactionary politics. In Classical Music in Weimar Germany, Brendan Fay challenges this paradigm by reassessing the relationship between conservative musical culture and German politics. Drawing upon a range of archival sources, concert reviews and satirical cartoons, Fay maps the complex path of classical music culture from Weimar to Nazi Germany-a trajectory that was more crooked, uneven, or broken than straight. Through an examination of topics as varied as radio and race to nationalism, this book demonstrates the diversity of competing aesthetic, philosophical and political ideals held by German music critics that were a hallmark of Weimar Germany. Rather than seeing the cultural conservatism of this period as a natural prelude for the violence and destruction later unleashed by Nazism, this fascinating book sheds new light on traditional culture and its relationship to the rise of Nazism in 20th-century Germany.

Author : Norbert Finzsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Communications written by Norbert Finzsch and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589929
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractured Times written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.

Author : Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866541
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany, 1914-1933 written by Matthew Stibbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping the future successes and failures of the Weimar Republic. Combining traditional political narrative with new insights provided by social and cultural history, the book reconsiders such key questions as: How widespread was support for the war in Germany between 1914 and 1918? How was the war viewed both ‘from above’, by leading generals, admirals and statesmen, and ‘from below’, by ordinary soldiers and civilians? What were the chief political, social, economic and cultural consequences of the war? In particular, did it result in a brutalisation of German society after 1918? How modern were German attitudes towards work, family, sex and leisure during the 1920s? What accounts for the extraordinary richness and experimentalism of this period? The book also provides a thorough and comprehensive discussion of the difficulties faced by the Weimar Republic in capturing the hearts and minds of the German people in the 1920s, and of the causes of its final demise in the early 1930s.