Media and the making of modern Germany : mass communications, society, and politics from the Empire to the Third Reich /

"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 s...

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Main Author: Ross, Corey, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford scholarship online. History module.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. 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: legitimating, 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
  • Part V. 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.