Pressestimmen
'This book is a valuable corrective to commonly-expressed assumptions about how 'the media works', and historians of modern Germany will ignore its conclusions at their peril.' -- Josie McLellan, German History '...[A] well designed collection of commissioned essays...this volume can claim to offer a concise while diverse panorama of both the history of mass media in Germany and its actual media historiography.' - Andreas Fickers, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 'In their introduction, the editors classify their volume as a contribution to the 'cultural expansion of social history'. What their volume does, however, is more than that. For it also brings politics back into social and cultural history by demonstrating that, in an era of democratization and consumption, the spheres of politics on the one hand, and culture, entertainment and leisure on the other, could not be kept as clearly separated from each other as before.' - Dominik Geppert, Journal of Contemporary History
Kurzbeschreibung
Although the huge expansion of the mass media is undoubtedly one of the central developments in industrialized societies over the twentieth century, in the case of Germany few historians have devoted much attention to it until recent years. In particular, the question of how modern mass media such as tabloids, film, radio and television, or recordings fitted into wider social and cultural developments in Germany's turbulent history has rarely been addressed. This volume is the first wide-ranging study of the rise of the mass media in Germany in social- and cultural-historical perspective. Bringing together some of the best recent historical research on film, radio, recorded sound and the print media by scholars in Europe and North America, it investigates the impact they have had on twentieth-century German society under widely varying political systems, and how in turn the media and their uses were shaped by the wider social, political and cultural context.
