Weimar controversies : explorations in popular culture with Siegfried Kracauer / 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...

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Main Author: Fisher, Peter S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Transcript Verlag, 2020.
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505 0 |a Occultism : empowerment or menace? -- Colportage : harmless pleasure or dangerous diversion? -- The Schund law : defending morality or undermining freedom? -- Detective pulps : modeling justice or glamorizing crime? -- Nudism : Weimar renaissance or national degeneration? 
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