Format:
xxviii, 181 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Paperback edition
ISBN:
9781350284241
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9781501347061
Series Statement:
Visual cultures and German contexts
Uniform Title:
Pictorialism to film and foto: German photography exhibitions from 1909-1929
Content:
Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula. Particularly in concert with aggressive display techniques, the European fascists were utterly convinced of their ability to use the medium of photography to manufacture consent among their publics. Unfortunately, as we know in hindsight, they succeeded. Other dictatorial regimes in the 1930s harnessed this powerful combination of photography and exhibitions for their own odious purposes. But this book, for the first time, focuses on the particularly consequential dialectic between Germany and Italy in the early-to-mid 1930s, and within each of those countries vis-à-vis display culture. The 1930s provides a potent case study for every generation, and it is as urgent as ever in our global political environment to deeply understand the central role of visual imagery in what transpired. This book demonstrates precisely how dictatorial regimes use photographic mass media, methodically and in combination with display, to persuade the public with often times highly destructive-even catastrophic-results.
Note:
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 157-170
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Dissertation The City University of New York 2004
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501347085
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501347078
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Deutsches Reich
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Italien
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Fotografie
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Faschismus
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Geschichte 1930-1940
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Hochschulschrift
URL:
Rezension
(H-Soz-Kult)
Author information:
Long, Rose-Carol Washton 1938-
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