{"product_id":"berlin-divided-city-19451989-6-culture-society-in-germany-6-9780857458025","title":"Berlin Divided City 19451989 6 Culture  Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, \u0026amp; represented during the 4 decades preceding reunification \u0026amp; thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin's identities. Scholars explore the divisions \u0026amp; antagonisms that defined East \u0026amp; West Berlin \u0026amp; present an indispensible study on the politics \u0026amp; culture of the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eEschewing the primacy of political history, the authors provide a nuanced picture of a city that, in many respects, was less divided than the Cold War mindset would have us believe…This interesting volume demonstrates the many ways in which East and West Berlin were mutually influential, and how commonalities extended beyond the division.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis volume taps into the on-going fascination with Berlin but, refreshingly, broadens the historical and conceptual scope, asking us to reconsider some of the assumptions we tend to make about the relationship between East and West Berlin during the time of the city’s division…The volume is so well conceived and simply so interesting that most readers will probably want to read it in its entirety…It demonstrates what an essay collection can accomplish when it grows out of a shared discussion. The broad range of topics and the interdisciplinary perspectives presented in this book could not have been achieved by an individual author. The editors deserve praise for the volume’s coherence and consistency.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe German Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Adopting an explicitly interdisciplinary approach, this volume ambitiously aims to offer more than just a cultural history of Cold War Berlin…[Its] mix of spatial and chronological demarcations proves insightful inasmuch as the best essays transgress and even undermine them, in effect articulating one of the editors’ stated emphases ‘on the continuities of urban culture beyond historical ruptures and spatial divides\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerman History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[An] important contribution to current scholarship on Berlin in the Cold War period. Although this is an anthology, it is well conceived to focus on various aspects of Berlin culture during the years of the Cold War.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Stephen Brockmann\u003c\/b\u003e, Carnegie Mellon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePhilip Broadbent\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSabine Hake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: COLD WAR BEGINNINGS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Life Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Zero Hour Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJennifer Evans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Propagandistic Role of Modern Art in Postwar Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaike Steinkamp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Back to the Future: New Music’s Revival and Redefinition in Occupied Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Janik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification in Divided Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGreg Castillo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Mediascape and Soundscape: Two Landscapes of Modernity in Cold War Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHeiner Stahl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: EAST BERLIN, THE SOCIALIST CAPITAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eApril Eisman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e “You Have to Draw a Line Somewhere”: Tropes of Division in DEFA Films from the early 1960s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMariana Ivanova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Building the East German Television Tower\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHeather Gumbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDeborah Ascher Barnstone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: WEST BERLIN, SHOWCASE OF THE WEST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e “I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin”: Hildegard Knef’s Cold War Movies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eUlrich Bach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke, and the Student Movement in West Berlin: Critical Reflections after Forty Years\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Barclay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Berlin and Post-Meinhof Feminism: Yvonne Rainer’s \u003ci\u003eJourneys from Berlin\/1971\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eClaudia Mesch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin as a Cold War Project\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePaul Jaskot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Beyond the Berlin Myth: the Local, the Global and IBA 87\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEmily Pugh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: BERLIN AFTER UNIFICATION: LOOKING BACK AND BEYOND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Stereographic City: Berlin Photography in the Wende Era\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMiriam Paeslack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/b\u003e Divided City, Divided Heaven? Berlin Border Crossings in Post-WendeFiction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLyn Marven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/b\u003e Interview with Barbara Hoidn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038916378967,"sku":"9780857458025","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857458025.jpg?v=1750941926","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/berlin-divided-city-19451989-6-culture-society-in-germany-6-9780857458025","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}