Media and the Making of Modern Germany
Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 August 2008
- ISBN 9780199278213
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 240x163x28 mm
- Weight 812 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 halftones, 11 tables 0
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Short description:
Media and the Making of Modern Germany provides the first full account of the expansion of the mass media in Germany up to the Second World War, examining how the rise of film, radio, recorded music, popular press, and advertising fitted into the wider development of social, political, and cultural life.
MoreLong description:
Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entertainments, and none have exerted a more profound influence on the nature of modern politics. Nowhere in Europe were the tensions and controversies surrounding the rise of mass culture more politically charged than in Germany-debates that played fatefully into the hands of the radical right. Corey Ross provides the first general account of the expansion of the mass media in Germany up to the Second World War, examining how the rise of film, radio, recorded music, popular press, and advertising fitted into the wider development of social, political, and cultural life.
Spanning the period from the late nineteenth century to the Third Reich, Media and the Making of Modern Germany shows how the social impact and meaning of 'mass culture' were by no means straightforward or homogenizing, but rather changed under different political and economic circumstances. By locating the rapid expansion of communications media and commercial entertainments firmly within their broader social and political context, Ross sheds new light on the relationship between mass media, social change, and political culture during this tumultuous period in German history.
A highly rewarding read ... the book is clearly written and thus extremely useful as a synthesis of popular culture and politics between 1890 and 1945.
Table of Contents:
Part 1. Introduction
Introduction
The Rise of the Mass Media: Modern Communications and Cultural Traditions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Part 2. Taming Mass Culture: Strategies of Control and Reform
Reasserting Control: The Regulation of Mass Culture
Attempting Reform: Legitimation, Education and Uplifting Tastes
Part 3. Mass Culture, Divided Audiences: Media, Entertainment and Social Change in the Weimar Republic
Technology and Purchasing Power: Media Availability and Audiences
Meeting Demand: Consumer Preferences and Social Difference
Media Publics between Fragmentation and Integration
Part 4. Mass Media and Mass Politics from the Empire to the Weimar Republic
Propaganda and the Modern Public
Republicans, Radicals and the Battle of Images
Mass Culture in the Third Reich: Propaganda, Entertainment and National Mobilization
Political Control and Commercial Concentration under the Nazis
Entertaining the National Community
The Media and the Second World War: From Integration to Disintegration
Conclusion
