Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany
This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact the media has on German society under varying political systems, and how the media is shaped by wider social, political and cultural context.
1st ed. 2006
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 01.01.2006
ISBN 9781349284016
KONRAD DUSSEL Professor, University of Mannheim, Germany BERNHARD FULDA Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK HEATHER GUMBERT PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, USA KNUT HICKETHIER Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany JUDITH KEILBACH Research Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany HABBO KNOCH Research Assistant, University of Göttingen, Germany KATE LACEY Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex, UK THOMAS LINDENBERGER Project Director, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany PATRICK MAJOR Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK GIDEON REUVENI Research Fellow, Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich, Germany DETLEF SIEGFRIED Associate Professor of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark MARKUS STAUFF Research Assistant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact the media has on German society under varying political systems, and how the media is shaped by wider social, political and cultural context.