| Description |
xi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Rob Burns -- 1. Imperial Germany: Towards the Commercialization of Culture / Robin Lenman, John Osborne and Eda Sagarra -- 2. Weimar Culture: The Birth of Modernism / Stephen Lamb and Anthony Phelan -- 3. Culture and the Organization of National Socialist Ideology 1933 to 1945 / Wilfried van der Will -- 4. The Failed Socialist Experiment: Culture in the GDR / Axel Goodbody, Dennis Tate and Ian Wallace -- 5. Reconstruction and Integration: The Culture of West German Stabilization 1945 to 1968 / Keith Bullivant and C. Jane Rice -- 6. The Federal Republic 1968 to 1990: From the Industrial Society to the Culture Society / Rob Burns and Wilfried van der Will -- 7. Unification and its Aftermath: The Challenge of History / Godfrey Carr and Georgina Paul |
| Summary |
Major changes have been taking place in the context of German Studies in both secondary and higher education, with the focus shifting to a broader range of cultural forms. Based on the view that cultures are the products of class, place, gender, and race, German Cultural Studies: An Introduction takes account of these changes and adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its wide-ranging study of German culture and society since 1871, emphasizing recent and contemporary developments. Chronological sections on Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic chart the growth of modernism and the culture industry in Germany, and examine the extent to which culture in any given period functions as an instrument of ideological manipulation or critical enlightenment. Throughout, the emphasis is on the interactions of culture, society, and ideology, and the role of culture in both public and private consciousnesses |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arts, German -- 19th century.
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Arts, German -- 20th century.
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Arts, German.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Germany.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Cultural policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115153 -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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Germany -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115154
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Germany -- Cultural policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115153
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054609
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610
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Germany -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054607
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| Author |
Burns, Rob, 1949-
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| LC no. |
95005109 |
| ISBN |
0198715021 |
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019871503X (paperback) |
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