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Berlin : culture and metropolis

Title: Berlin : culture and metropolis / Charles W. Haxthausen and Heidrun Suhr, editors.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1990.

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xxiii, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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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.

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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.
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.

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90049453

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Princeton University Library