Media and the making of modern Germany: mass communications, society, and politics from the empire to the third reich

Media and the Making of Modern Germany provides the first full account of theexpansion of the mass media in Germany up to the Second World War, examining how the rise of film, radio, recorded music, popular press, and advertising fitted into the wider development of social, political, and cultural life. INDICE: Part 1. Introduction; Introduction; 1: 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; 2: Reasserting Control: The Regulation of Mass Culture; 3: Attempting Reform: Legitimation, Education and Uplifting Tastes; Part 3. Mass Culture,Divided Audiences: Media, Entertainment and Social Change in the Weimar Republic; 4: Technology and Purchasing Power: Media Availability and Audiences; 5: Meeting Demand: Consumer Preferences and Social Difference; 6: Media Publics between Fragmentation and Integration; Part 4. Mass Media and Mass Politics from the Empire to the Weimar Republic; 7: Propaganda and the Modern Public; 8: Republicans, Radicals and the Battle of Images; Mass Culture in the Third Reich: Propaganda, Entertainment and National Mobilization; 9: Political Control and Commercial Concentration under the Nazis; 10: Entertaining the National Community; 11: The Media and the Second World War: From Integration to Disintegration; Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958386-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 442
• Fecha Publicación: 06/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés