Peter S., Fisher – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Peter S., Fisher. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
2 produkter
2 produkter
Weimar Controversies – Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
670 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflict?Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.
809 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.