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The Golden Years of Weimar: Exploring Mass Culture and Social Tensions

Dive into the vibrant cultural scene of Weimar Germany, from avant-garde art movements to expressionist film and architecture. Discover the clash between high and low culture, the individual and the collective, and the impact of technology and modernization. This book review assignment explores the complexities of Weimar culture and its societal implications.

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The Golden Years of Weimar: Exploring Mass Culture and Social Tensions

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  1. Week 9 The Golden Years of Weimar Marlene Dietrich as Lola in The Blue Angel

  2. Mass Culture and Entertainment

  3. Der Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel, 1930 • Directed by Joseph von Sternberg • Starred Emil Jannings & Marlene Dietrich • The sexually liberated woman!

  4. Metropolis, 1927 • Directed by Fritz Lang • Heady embrace of technology and the machine world alongside its threat to humanity • The logical conclusion: harmonization of labor and capital

  5. Revue Nègre

  6. Josephine Baker

  7. Tiller Girls

  8. Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, 1936

  9. Avant-Garde Movements

  10. The First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920

  11. Dadaism

  12. Expressionist Architecture The Chilehaus in Hamburg (1922-24), designed by Fritz Höger The Einstein Tower in Potsdam (1919-20), designed by Erich Mendelsohn

  13. Expressionist Film Nosferatu (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau Scenes from Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) The ‘Tower of Babel’ from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

  14. Expressionist Theatre • Ernst Toller, Die Wandlung (Transformation, 1919). • George Kaiser, Die Koralle (1917), Gas (1918) & Gas II (1920). The director and impressario Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) did much to popularize an Expressionist aesthetic in the theatre of the Weimar Republic

  15. Union of Art and Technology

  16. Bauhaus, 1919-1933

  17. Bauhaus, Dessau

  18. Social Critique in the Arts

  19. Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity Otto Dix Skat Players 1920

  20. Life in the Big City Großstadt (Metropolis) Triptych (1927-28) by Otto Dix

  21. The Pillars of the Establishment (1926) by George Grosz Three Whores (1926) by Otto Dix

  22. Satires of Middle Class Life Industriebauen (1920) by Georg Scholz and Deutsche Familie (1932) by Adolf Uzarski

  23. Weimar Culture • High vs. Low Culture • Mass culture and the Avant-Garde • Clash of values and new expectations • The Individual vs. the Collective • Social tensions and class stability • Mass Consumption & Modernisation • Technology and its repercussions

  24. Book Review Due: Monday in Lecture, Week 1, Term 2 • You may choose any book that is at least 200 pages and has been published since the year 2000. • The purpose of a book review is to provide a summary of the work, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and, most importantly, present your overall assessment of the work. • Towards this assessment, you should discuss one or more of the following: the book’s audience, its usefulness (for scholars, students, the general public), and its contribution to the field. 

  25. Sample Book Review Available on Jstor: Hannah Schissler, “Review: Rebuilding West German Society: A Gendered View”, Reviewed work: Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germanyby Robert G. Moeller Central European History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1993), pp. 326-334 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4546350 Linda Gordon, “Review: Nazi Feminists?”, Reviewed work: Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz Feminist Review, No. 27 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 97-105 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1394813?&Search=yes&term=feminists&term=gordon&term=linda&term=nazi&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dlinda%2Bgordon%2Bnazi%2Bfeminists%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=2&ttl=321&returnArticleService=showFullText Robert Gellately, “Review: [untitled]”, Reviewed work: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 187-191 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953473?&Search=yes&term=gellately&term=hitler%27s&term=executioners&term=willing&term=robert&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Drobert%2Bgellately%2Bhitler%2527s%2Bwilling%2Bexecutioners%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=1&ttl=28&returnArticleService=showFullText

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