Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism): 37 - Image 1

£43.95

University of California Press Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism): 37

Name: Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism): 37
Brand: University of California Press
Price: 43.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

Price data last checked 21 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£44 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 70 days · 70 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 70 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £44 (70 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £44 - £44

Price levels: 1 different prices over 70 days

Description

This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republic's left-leaning culture of innovation and experimentation. Peter Jelavich examines Alfred Doblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1929), a novel that questioned the autonomy and coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, and traces the radical discrepancies that came with its adaptation into a radio play (1930) and a film (1931). Jelavich explains these discrepancies by examining not only the varying demands of genre and technology but also the political and economic contexts of the media - in particular, the censorship practices in German radio and film. His analysis culminates in a richly textured discussion of the complex factors that led to the demise of Weimar culture, as Nazi intimidation and the economic strains of the Depression induced producers to depoliticize their works. Jelavich's book becomes a cautionary tale about how fear of outspoken right-wing politicians can curtail and eliminate the arts as a critical counterforce to politics - all in the name of entertainment.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of California Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0520243633
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 November 2005
Listed Since: 09 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of California Press Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism): 37

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography

Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present: 16 (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism)

Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s: 2 (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, 2)

Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics

Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-33

Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany (New Perspectives in German Political Studies)

Of Writers and Workers: The Movement of Writing Workers in East Germany: 69 (German Life & Civilization)

Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

The Weimar Republic (Questions and Analysis in History)

Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989: 6 (Culture & Society in Germany, 6)

Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945 (New Studies in European History)

German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Lukács to Strauss

German Pop Culture: How American Is It? (Social History, Popular Culture & Politics in Germany)

Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910–1933

East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History

Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City

Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment (New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century)

Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism (New Perspectives in German Political Studies)

German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage

Rethinking German Idealism

Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic

Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

The New Germany: Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Unification