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Weimar Culture RevisitedMiddle-Class Heroes: Anti-Nationalism in the Popular Adventure Films of the Weimar Republic

Weimar Culture Revisited: Middle-Class Heroes: Anti-Nationalism in the Popular Adventure Films of... [Scholars traditionally read Weimar film as a symptomatic manifestation of national traditions, longings, and fears. Siegfried Kracauer’s seminal work of 1947, From Caligari to Hitler, identified postwar German film with the three major paradigms customarily associated with Weimar culture as a whole: ominous anticipation of the rise of Nazism, inability to come to terms with the traumatic experiences of World War I, and dispassionate escapism in the face of contemporary crises.1 While present-day scholars reject Kracauer’s focus on the “German soul” and its psychotic pathology, they often share his perception of the essential role of films in the formation of postwar German nationalism.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Weimar Culture RevisitedMiddle-Class Heroes: Anti-Nationalism in the Popular Adventure Films of the Weimar Republic

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Williams, John Alexander
Ashkenazi, Ofer
Weimar Culture Revisited — Oct 17, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29215-8
Pages
73 –97
DOI
10.1057/9780230117259_4
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Abstract

[Scholars traditionally read Weimar film as a symptomatic manifestation of national traditions, longings, and fears. Siegfried Kracauer’s seminal work of 1947, From Caligari to Hitler, identified postwar German film with the three major paradigms customarily associated with Weimar culture as a whole: ominous anticipation of the rise of Nazism, inability to come to terms with the traumatic experiences of World War I, and dispassionate escapism in the face of contemporary crises.1 While present-day scholars reject Kracauer’s focus on the “German soul” and its psychotic pathology, they often share his perception of the essential role of films in the formation of postwar German nationalism.2]

Published: Oct 17, 2015

Keywords: Private Sphere; Social Reform; City Dweller; Modern City; Program Guide

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