week 9 the golden years of weimar die sinfonie der grosstadt, 1927
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Week 9
The Golden Years of Weimar
Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt, 1927http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKu5zegpfc
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Weimar Culture
• High vs. Low Culture • Mass culture and the Avant-Garde• Clash of values and new expectations • The Individual vs. the Collective• Social tensions and class stability• Mass Consumption & Modernisation• Technology and its repercussions
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Avant-Garde Movements
Bruno Taut’s Glass Pavilion
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The First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920
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Dadaism
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Expressionist Architecture
The Einstein Tower in Potsdam (1919-20),designed by Erich Mendelsohn
The Chilehaus in Hamburg (1922-24),
designed by Fritz Höger
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Expressionist Film
Scenes from Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920)Nosferatu (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau
The ‘Tower of Babel’ from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)
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Expressionist Theatre• Ernst Toller, Die
Wandlung (Transformation, 1919).
• George Kaiser, Die Koralle (1917), Gas (1918) & Gas II (1920).
The director and impressario Max Reinhardt(1873-1943) did much to popularize an Expressionist
aesthetic in the theatre of the Weimar Republic
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Union of Art and Technology
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Bauhaus, 1919-1933
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Bauhaus, Dessau
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Social Critique in the Arts
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Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity
Otto DixSkat Players
1920
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Großstadt (Metropolis) Triptych (1927-28) by Otto Dix
Life in the Big City
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The Pillars of the Establishment (1926) by George Grosz
Three Whores (1926) by Otto Dix
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Industriebauen (1920) by Georg Scholz and Deutsche Familie (1932) by Adolf Uzarski
Satires of Middle Class Life
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Mass Culture and Entertainment
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Der Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel, 1930
• Directed by Joseph von Sternberg
• Starred Emil Jannings & Marlene Dietrich
• The sexually liberated woman!
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Metropolis, 1927
• Directed by Fritz Lang• Heady embrace of
technology and the machine world alongside its threat to humanity
• The logical conclusion: harmonization of labor and capital
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Revue Nègre
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Josephine Baker
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Tiller Girls
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Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, 1936
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Book ReviewDue: Monday in Lecture, Week 1, Term 2
• You may choose any book that is at least 200 pages and has been published since the year 2000.
• The purpose of a book review is to provide a summary of the work, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and, most importantly, present your overall assessment of the work.
• Towards this assessment, you should discuss one or more of the following: the book’s audience, its usefulness (for scholars, students, the general public), and its contribution to the field.
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Sample Book ReviewAvailable on Jstor:
Hannah Schissler, “Review: Rebuilding West German Society: A Gendered View”, Reviewed work: Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany by Robert G. Moeller
Central European History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1993), pp. 326-334
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4546350
Linda Gordon, “Review: Nazi Feminists?”, Reviewed work: Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz
Feminist Review, No. 27 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 97-105http://www.jstor.org/stable/1394813?&Search=yes&term=feminists&term=gordon&term=linda&term=nazi&list=hide&searchUri=
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Robert Gellately, “Review: [untitled]”, Reviewed work: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 187-191http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953473?&Search=yes&term=gellately&term=hitler
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