Weimar Controversies : : Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer / / Peter S. Fisher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Fisher, Peter S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 224
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Occultism: Empowerment or Menace? --; Chapter Two. Colportage: Harmless Pleasure or Dangerous Diversion? --; Chapter Three. The Schund Law: Defending Morality or Undermining Freedom? --; Chapter Four. Detective Pulps: Modeling Justice or Glamorizing Crime? --; Chapter Five. Nudism: Weimar Renaissance or National Degeneration? --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839451465; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839451465?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter S. Fisher.

In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflicts?Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.