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Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany

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Editors:
  1. Karl Christian Führer

    1. Research Centre for Contemporary History, University of Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Corey Ross

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Part of the book series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies (NPG)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany: An Introduction

    1. Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany: An Introduction

      • Karl Christian Führer, Corey Ross
      Pages 1-22

  4. Film and Television: Virtual Realities and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Germany

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Two-Fold Admiration: American Movies as Popular Entertainment and Artistic Model in Nazi Germany, 1933–39

      • Karl Christian Führer
      Pages 97-112

    3. Looking West: The Cold War and the Making of Two German Cinemas

      • Thomas Lindenberger
      Pages 113-128

    4. Television and Social Transformation in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Knut Hickethier
      Pages 129-145

    5. Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952–89

      • Heather Gumbert
      Pages 146-164

    6. Technical Innovation, Social Participation, Societal Self-Reflection: Televised Sport in (West) German Society

      • Judith Keilbach, Markus Stauff
      Pages 165-180

  5. The Print Media: From Reading Culture to Mass Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Industries of Sensationalism: German Tabloids in Weimar Berlin

      • Bernhard Fulda
      Pages 183-203

    3. Reading, Advertising and Consumer Culture in the Weimar Period

      • Gideon Reuveni
      Pages 204-216

    4. Living Pictures: Photojournalism in Germany, 1900 to the 1930s

      • Habbo Knoch
      Pages 217-233

    5. ‘Smut and Trash’: Germany’s Culture Wars Against Pulp Fiction

      • Patrick Major
      Pages 234-250

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 251-254
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About this book

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.

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Centre for Contemporary History, University of Hamburg, Germany

    Karl Christian Führer

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Corey Ross

About the editors

KONRAD DUSSEL Professor, University of Mannheim, Germany BERNHARD FULDA Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK HEATHER GUMBERT PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, USA KNUT HICKETHIER Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany JUDITH KEILBACH Research Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany HABBO KNOCH Research Assistant, University of Göttingen, Germany KATE LACEY Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex, UK THOMAS LINDENBERGER Project Director, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany PATRICK MAJOR Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK GIDEON REUVENI Research Fellow, Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich, Germany DETLEF SIEGFRIED Associate Professor of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark MARKUS STAUFF Research Assistant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

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