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Week 9

Week 9. The Golden Years of Weimar. Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt, 1927 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKu5zegpfc. Weimar Culture. High vs. Low Culture Mass culture and the Avant-Garde Clash of values and new expectations The Individual vs. the Collective

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Week 9

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  1. Week 9 The Golden Years of Weimar Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt, 1927 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKu5zegpfc

  2. 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

  3. Avant-Garde Movements Bruno Taut’s Glass Pavilion

  4. The First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920

  5. Dadaism

  6. Expressionist Architecture The Chilehaus in Hamburg (1922-24), designed by Fritz Höger The Einstein Tower in Potsdam (1919-20), designed by Erich Mendelsohn

  7. Expressionist Film Nosferatu (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau Scenes from Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) The ‘Tower of Babel’ from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

  8. 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

  9. Union of Art and Technology

  10. Bauhaus, 1919-1933

  11. Bauhaus, Dessau

  12. Social Critique in the Arts

  13. Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity Otto Dix Skat Players 1920

  14. Life in the Big City Großstadt (Metropolis) Triptych (1927-28) by Otto Dix

  15. The Pillars of the Establishment (1926) by George Grosz Three Whores (1926) by Otto Dix

  16. Satires of Middle Class Life Industriebauen (1920) by Georg Scholz and Deutsche Familie (1932) by Adolf Uzarski

  17. Mass Culture and Entertainment

  18. Der Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel, 1930 • Directed by Joseph von Sternberg • Starred Emil Jannings & Marlene Dietrich • The sexually liberated woman!

  19. 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

  20. Revue Nègre

  21. Josephine Baker

  22. Tiller Girls

  23. Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, 1936

  24. Book Review Due: 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. 

  25. Sample Book Review Available 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 Germanyby 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. 97-105 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1394813?&Search=yes&term=feminists&term=gordon&term=linda&term=nazi&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dlinda%2Bgordon%2Bnazi%2Bfeminists%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=2&ttl=321&returnArticleService=showFullText 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. 187-191 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953473?&Search=yes&term=gellately&term=hitler%27s&term=executioners&term=willing&term=robert&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Drobert%2Bgellately%2Bhitler%2527s%2Bwilling%2Bexecutioners%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=1&ttl=28&returnArticleService=showFullText

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