Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany

KARL CHRISTIAN F HRER is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published widely on the history of social policy, media history, and the cultural history of twentieth-century Germany. COREY ROSS is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on the history of the German Democratic Republic, and is currently writing a social history of the mass media in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.

'This book is a valuable corrective to commonly-expressed assumptions about how 'the media works', and historians of modern Germany will ignore its conclusions at their peril.' Josie McLellan, German History '...[A] well designed collection of commissioned essays...this volume can claim to offer a concise while diverse panorama of both the history of mass media in Germany and its actual media historiography.' - Andreas Fickers, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 'In their introduction, the editors classify their volume as a contribution to the 'cultural expansion of social history'. What their volume does, however, is more than that. For it also brings politics back into social and cultural history by demonstrating that, in an era of democratization and consumption, the spheres of politics on the one hand, and culture, entertainment and leisure on the other, could not be kept as clearly separated from each other as before.' - Dominik Geppert, Journal of Contemporary History

• Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany: An Introduction; K.C.Fuhrer & C.Ross PART 1: RECORDED MUSIC AND BROADCASTING Entertainment, Technology, and Tradition: The Rise of Recorded Music from the Empire to the Third Reich; C.Ross 'Underground': Counter-Culture and the Record Industry in the 1960s; D.Siegfried The Invention of a Listening Public: Radio and its Audiences; K.Lacey Radio Programming, Ideology, and Cultural Change: Fascism, Communism and Liberal Democracy, 1920s-50s; K.Dussel PART 2: FILM AND TELEVISION Two-fold Admiration: American Movies as Popular Entertainment and Artistic Model in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1939; K.C.Fuhrer Looking West: The Cold War and the Making of Two German Cinemas; T.Lindenberger Television and Social Transformation in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.Hickethier Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952-89; H.Gumbert Technical Innovation, Social Participation, Societal Self-Reflection: Televised Sports in (West) German Society; J.Keilbach & M.Stauff PART 3: THE PRINT MEDIA Industries of Sensationalism: German Tabloids in Weimar Berlin; B.Fulda Reading, Advertising, and Consumer Culture in the Weimar Period; G.Reuveni Living Pictures: Photojournalism in Germany, 1900-1930s; H.Knoch 'Trash and Smut': Germany's Culture Wars against Pulp Fiction; P.Major