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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Sabine Hake |
ISBN: | 9780472070381 047207038X |
OCLC Number: | 840455026 |
Description: | 323 blz. ; .. cm. |
Contents: | Setting the scene : Weimar Berlin, circa 1920 -- Mapping Weimar society : on masses, classes, and white-collar workers -- Organizing the modern masses : new building in Weimar Berlin -- Walking in the metropolis : the city texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer -- Picturing the new Berlin : photography, architecture, and modern mass society -- Deconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Reconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin, symphony of the big city. |
Series Title: | Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany |
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Hake covers a vast terrain with admirable expertise and poised judgment, great insight, and sophistication. In her brilliant readings of various debates on urban planning and representations of metropolitan life in literature, photo journalism, and film, Weimar Berlin emerges as the site where new configurations of class were architecturally and discursively contested and renegotiated. - Christian Rogowski, Chair of German, Amherst College Read more...
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