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Cultural Studies

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Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

By Cathy Gelbin & Sander Gilman
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought

 

Three-Way Street

Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

By Jay Howard Geller & Leslie Morris
Subjects: History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

An Emotional State

The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

By Anna M. Parkinson
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the extent of Germany’s emotional responses in the postwar period, challenging persistent paradigms

Projecting History

German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000

By Nora M. Alter
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production

Socialist Modern

East German Everyday Culture and Politics

Edited by Katherine Pence & Paul Betts
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores the ways in which modernity shaped the relationship between socialist state and society in East Germany

German Pop Culture

How "American" Is It?

Edited by Agnes C. Mueller
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An incisive study of the impact of American culture on modern German society

The Challenge of Modernity

German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960

By Adelheid von Saldern
Translated by Bruce Little
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A collection of work in translation by the celebrated, influential German historian Adelheid von Saldern

Exclusionary Violence

Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History

Edited by Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, and Helmut Walser Smith
Subjects: German Studies, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A comprehensive examination of pre-Nazi violence against Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany

That Was the Wild East

Film Culture, Unification, and the "New" Germany

By Leonie Naughton
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An illuminating exploration of the cultural politics of the East-West unification and its subsequent impact upon German filmmaking

Shifting Memories

The Nazi Past in the New Germany

By Klaus Neumann
Subjects: History, German Studies, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust

The Imperialist Imagination

German Colonialism and Its Legacy

Edited by Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature

Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930

Edited by Geoff Eley
Subjects: History, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Bold new essays on Germany's critical Kaiserreich period.

A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies

Edited by Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

West Germany under Construction

Politics, Society, and Culture in the Adenauer Era

Edited by Robert G. Moeller
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Collects important recent essays in a critical reexamination of the Federal Republic's early history

Jews, Germans, Memory

Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany

Edited by Y. Michal Bodemann
Subjects: German Studies, Sociology, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources

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