Contributor
Canning, Kathleen.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Descriptionxiii, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. Defeat and the legacy of war. The return of the undead : Weimar cinema and the Great War / Anton Kaes -- The work of art and the problem of politics in Berlin Dada / Brigid Doherty -- The secret history of photomontage : on the origins of the composite form and the Weimar photomontages of Marianne Brandt / Elizabeth Otto -- Part II. New citizens/new subjectivities. Mothers, citizens, and consumers : female readers in Weimar Germany / Kerstin Barndt -- Claiming citizenship : suffrage and subjectivity in Germany after the First World War / Kathleen Canning -- Feminist politics beyond the Reichstag : Helene Stöcker and visions of reform / Kristin McGuire -- Producing Jews : maternity, eugenics, and the embodiment of the Jewish subject / Sharon Gillerman -- Part III. Symbols, rituals, and discourses of democracy. Reforming the Reich : democratic symbols and rituals in the Weimar Republic / Manuela Achilles -- High expectations, deep disappointment : structures of the public perception of politics in the Weimar Republic / Thomas Mergel -- Contested narratives of the Weimar Republic : the case of the "Kutisker-Barmat scandal" / Martin H. Geyer -- Political violence, contested public space, and reasserted masculinity in Weimar Germany / Dirk Schumann -- Part IV. Publics, publicity, and mass culture. "A self-representation of the masses" : Siegfried Kracauer's curious Americanism / Miriam Hansen -- Neither masses nor individuals : representations of the collective in interwar German culture / Stefan Jonsson -- Capital culture in decline : inflation and the distress of intellectuals / Bernd Widdig -- Part V. Weimar topographies. Defining the nation in crisis : citizenship policy in the early Weimar Republic / Annemarie Sammartino -- Gender and colonial politics after the Versailles Treaty / Lora Wildenthal -- The economy of experience in Weimar Germany / Peter Fritzsche.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
