Although the huge expansion of the mass media is undoubtedly one of the central developments in industrialized societies over the twentieth century, in the case of Germany few historians have devoted much attention to it until recent years. In particular, the question of how modern mass media such as tabloids, film, radio and television, or recordings fitted into wider social and cultural developments in Germany's turbulent history has rarely been addressed. This volume is the first wide-ranging study of the rise of the mass media in Germany in social- and cultural-historical perspective. Bringing together some of the best recent historical research on film, radio, recorded sound and the print media by scholars in Europe and North America, it investigates the impact they have had on twentieth-century German society under widely varying political systems, and how in turn the media and their uses were shaped by the wider social, political and cultural context.
'This book is a valuable corrective to commonly-expressed assumptions about how 'the media works', and historians of modern Germany will ignore its conclusions at their peril.' – Josie McLellan, German History
'...[A] well designed collection of commissioned essays...this volume can claim to offer a concise while diverse panorama of both the history of mass media in Germany and its actual media historiography.' - Andreas Fickers, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
'In their introduction, the editors classify their volume as a contribution to the 'cultural expansion of social history'. What their volume does, however, is more than that. For it also brings politics back into social and cultural history by demonstrating that, in an era of democratization and consumption, the spheres of politics on the one hand, and culture, entertainment and leisure on the other, could not be kept as clearly separated from each other as before.' - Dominik Geppert, Journal of Contemporary History
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany: An Introduction; K.C.Führer & C.Ross
PART 1: RECORDED MUSIC AND BROADCASTING
Entertainment, Technology, and Tradition: The Rise of Recorded Music from the Empire to the Third Reich; C.Ross
'Underground': Counter-Culture and the Record Industry in the 1960s; D.Siegfried
The Invention of a Listening Public: Radio and its Audiences; K.Lacey
Radio Programming, Ideology, and Cultural Change: Fascism, Communism and Liberal Democracy, 1920s-50s; K.Dussel
PART 2: FILM AND TELEVISION
Two-fold Admiration: American Movies as Popular Entertainment and Artistic Model in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1939; K.C.Führer
Looking West: The Cold War and the Making of Two German Cinemas; T.Lindenberger
Television and Social Transformation in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.Hickethier
Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952-89; H.Gumbert
Technical Innovation, Social Participation, Societal Self-Reflection: Televised Sports in (West) German Society; J.Keilbach & M.Stauff
PART 3: THE PRINT MEDIA
Industries of Sensationalism: German Tabloids in Weimar Berlin; B.Fulda
Reading, Advertising, and Consumer Culture in the Weimar Period; G.Reuveni
Living Pictures: Photojournalism in Germany, 1900-1930s; H.Knoch
'Trash and Smut': Germany's Culture Wars against Pulp Fiction; P.Major
KARL CHRISTIAN FÜHRER is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published widely on the history of social policy, media history, and the cultural history of twentieth-century Germany.
COREY ROSS is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on the history of the German Democratic Republic, and is currently writing a social history of the mass media in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.
Description
Although the huge expansion of the mass media is undoubtedly one of the central developments in industrialized societies over the twentieth century, in the case of Germany few historians have devoted much attention to it until recent years. In particular, the question of how modern mass media such as tabloids, film, radio and television, or recordings fitted into wider social and cultural developments in Germany's turbulent history has rarely been addressed. This volume is the first wide-ranging study of the rise of the mass media in Germany in social- and cultural-historical perspective. Bringing together some of the best recent historical research on film, radio, recorded sound and the print media by scholars in Europe and North America, it investigates the impact they have had on twentieth-century German society under widely varying political systems, and how in turn the media and their uses were shaped by the wider social, political and cultural context.
Reviews
'This book is a valuable corrective to commonly-expressed assumptions about how 'the media works', and historians of modern Germany will ignore its conclusions at their peril.' – Josie McLellan, German History
'...[A] well designed collection of commissioned essays...this volume can claim to offer a concise while diverse panorama of both the history of mass media in Germany and its actual media historiography.' - Andreas Fickers, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
'In their introduction, the editors classify their volume as a contribution to the 'cultural expansion of social history'. What their volume does, however, is more than that. For it also brings politics back into social and cultural history by demonstrating that, in an era of democratization and consumption, the spheres of politics on the one hand, and culture, entertainment and leisure on the other, could not be kept as clearly separated from each other as before.' - Dominik Geppert, Journal of Contemporary History
Contents
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany: An Introduction; K.C.Führer & C.Ross
PART 1: RECORDED MUSIC AND BROADCASTING
Entertainment, Technology, and Tradition: The Rise of Recorded Music from the Empire to the Third Reich; C.Ross
'Underground': Counter-Culture and the Record Industry in the 1960s; D.Siegfried
The Invention of a Listening Public: Radio and its Audiences; K.Lacey
Radio Programming, Ideology, and Cultural Change: Fascism, Communism and Liberal Democracy, 1920s-50s; K.Dussel
PART 2: FILM AND TELEVISION
Two-fold Admiration: American Movies as Popular Entertainment and Artistic Model in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1939; K.C.Führer
Looking West: The Cold War and the Making of Two German Cinemas; T.Lindenberger
Television and Social Transformation in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.Hickethier
Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952-89; H.Gumbert
Technical Innovation, Social Participation, Societal Self-Reflection: Televised Sports in (West) German Society; J.Keilbach & M.Stauff
PART 3: THE PRINT MEDIA
Industries of Sensationalism: German Tabloids in Weimar Berlin; B.Fulda
Reading, Advertising, and Consumer Culture in the Weimar Period; G.Reuveni
Living Pictures: Photojournalism in Germany, 1900-1930s; H.Knoch
'Trash and Smut': Germany's Culture Wars against Pulp Fiction; P.Major
Authors
KARL CHRISTIAN FÜHRER is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published widely on the history of social policy, media history, and the cultural history of twentieth-century Germany.
COREY ROSS is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on the history of the German Democratic Republic, and is currently writing a social history of the mass media in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.
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