Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : culture and metropolis / / Charles W. Haxthausen and Heidrun Suhr, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.1/55
• Soggetto geografico: Berlin (Germany) History; Berlin (Germany) Civilization; Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SuhrHeidrun HaxthausenCharles Werner
• 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 Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz ; 7. Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of Weimar Berlin: Siegfried Kracauer8. 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Berlin
• ISBN: 0-8166-5545-6; 1-4356-0579-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452135903321
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