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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780702003321

Autore

Hake Sabine <1956->

Titolo

Topographies of class : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin / / Sabine Hake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-472-07038-X

1-282-59756-6

9786612597565

0-472-02519-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) : ill., maps

Collana

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Disciplina

943/.155085

Soggetti

Architecture - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century

Mass society

Berlin (Germany) History 1918-1945

Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc

Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-312) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, the author examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society.