"Between the two world wars, Germany managed - despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing - to attract extremely large numbers of British travellers and tourists. During the Weimar period in particular, Germany attracted visitors from virtually every section of Brit…
Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany …
& Ldquo; Voluptuous Panic is simultaneously appalling and thrilling, repellent and seductive, grotesque and gorgeous & mdash;not a typical coffee table book. It would go better with absinthe drunk from a human skull. & rdquo; & mdash;Gary Meyer, Clean Sheets When Voluptuous Pani…
This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period "Babylon on the Spree" has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musician…
This book explores German and Jewish history between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But the Weimar Jews sought to rejuvenate and reconfigure their community as a means both of strengthening the …
Covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and polit…
The emergence of the 'Neue Frau' (New Woman) in Germany after the first World War was symptomatic of the social, political, economic and cultural upheavals of the Weimar Republic. In these changing times, new opportunities for women were often pitted against retrenched, traditio…
Examination of the role of women as producers and patrons of art in Germany after the First world war, while also considering the problematic area of women as subject and object in representation. Art forms discussed are the visual arts, photography, dance and film.
The emergence of the 'Neue Frau' (New Woman) in Germany after the first World War was symptomatic of the social, political, economic and cultural upheavals of the Weimar Republic. In these changing times, new opportunities for women were often pitted against retrenched, traditio…
