Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 323 p)
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ill., maps
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0472050389
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047207038X
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9780472050383
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9780472070381
Series Statement:
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Content:
The first interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural architecture of Weimar Berlin.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene: Weimar Berlin, circa 1920 -- I. Historical Legacies and Reformist Beginnings -- II. Martin Wagner and the New Berlin -- III. Case Study: Potsdamer Platz -- Chapter 2 Mapping Weimar Society: On Masses, Classes, and White-Collar Workers -- I. The Rise of the White-Collar Workers -- II. Weimar Berlin, the Quintessential Modern Metropolis -- III. Mass Discourse and White-Collar Culture -- IV. White-Collar Culture and the New Objectivity -- Chapter 3 Organizing the Modern Masses: New Building in Weimar Berlin -- I. Constructing the New Berlin -- II. The Project of New Building -- III. Erich Mendelsohn and the Functionalist Aesthetic -- IV. Ludwig Hilberseimer and the High-Rise City -- Chapter 4 Walking in the Metropolis: The City Texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer -- I. Case Study: The Kurfürstendamm -- II. Hessel's Urban Flaneries -- III. Kracauer's Urban Hieroglyphics -- Chapter 5 Picturing the New Berlin: Photography, Architecture, and Modern Mass Society -- I. Architecture and Photography in Weimar Culture -- II. Case Study: Mossehaus -- III. Images of Alexanderplatz -- Chapter 6 Deconstructing Modern Subjectivity: On Berlin Alexanderplatz -- I. Case Study: Alexanderplatz -- II. On the Streets with Franz Biberkopf -- III. The City Novel and Weimar Literary Culture -- IV. Alfred Döblin and Berlin -- Chapter 7 Reconstructing Modern Subjectivity: On Berlin, Symphony of the Big City -- I. A City Symphony in Five Movements -- II. Walter Ruttmann and the City Film -- III. The Spectacle of White-Collar Culture -- IV. Critical Reception and Filmic Reinterpretation -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Titles.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-312) and indexes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472050383
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780472050383
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3414669
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