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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778396803321

Titolo

Berlin : culture and metropolis / / editors, Charles W. Haxthausen, Heidrun Suhr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1990

ISBN

0-8166-5545-6

1-4356-0579-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

SuhrHeidrun

HaxthausenCharles Werner

Disciplina

943.1/55

Soggetti

Berlin (Germany) History

Berlin (Germany) Civilization

Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays rev. and expanded from papers given at an international conference titled "Culture and metropolis: production and reception of culture and the arts in Berlin, 1900 to the present" held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in Oct. 1987.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Pictures of a City at Work, Berlin, circa 1890-1930: Visual Reflections on Social Structures and Technology in the Modern Urban Construct; 2. The Beauty of the Metropolis: Toward an Aesthetic Urbanism in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin; 3. ""A New Beauty"": Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Images of Berlin; 4. Modernity, Civic Identity, and Metropolitan Entertainment: Vaudeville, Cabaret, and Revue in Berlin, 1900-1933; 5. Lustmord: Inside the Windows of the Metropolis; 6. The City as Megaphone in Alfred Dòˆblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz

7. Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of Weimar Berlin: Siegfried Kracauer 8. Retrieving the City as Heimat: Berlin in Nazi Cinema; 9. Lyric Poetry in Berlin since 1961; 10. Berlin: Backdrop, Stage, or Actor? Images of the City in Recent GDR Fiction; 11. Fremde in Berlin: The Outsiders' View from the Inside; 12. Panem et Circenses: Berlin's Anniversaries as Political Happenings; Afterword: Writing about Berlin; Contributors; Index