| Description |
xxiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Essays rev. and expanded from papers given at an international conference titled "Culture and metropolis: production and reception of culture and the arts in Berlin, 1900 to the present" held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in Oct. 1987. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pictures of a city at work, Berlin, circa 1890-1930 : visual reflections on social structures and technology in the modern urban construct / John Czaplicka -- The beauty of the metropolis : toward an aesthetic urbanism in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Lothar Müller -- "A new beauty" : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's images of Berlin / Charles W. Haxthausen -- Modernity, civic identity, and metropolitan entertainment : vaudeville, cabaret, and revue in Berlin, 1900-1933 / Peter Jelavich -- Lustmord : inside the windows of the metropolis / Beth Irwin Lewis -- The city as megaphone in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Harald Jähner -- Deciphering the hieroglyphics of Weimar Berlin : Siegfried Kracauer / David Frisby. |
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Retrieving the city as Heimat : Berlin in Nazi cinema / Linda Schulte-Sasse -- Lyric poetry in Berlin since 1961 / Harald Hartung -- Berlin : backdrop, stage, or actor? : images of the city in recent GDR fiction / Dorothy Rosenberg -- Fremde in Berlin : the outsiders' view from the inside / Heidrun Suhr -- Panem et circenses : Berlin anniversaries as political happenings / Gerhard Weiss. |
| Subject |
Berlin (Germany) -- Civilization.
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Berlin (Germany) -- History. |
| Indexed Term |
Germany Berlin, history |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Haxthausen, Charles Werner.
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Suhr, Heidrun.
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| ISBN |
0816618607 alkaline paper |
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