'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

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Convinced that sexual immorality and unstable gender norms were endangering national recovery after World War One, German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights. These provisions enabled legislations to adopt two national censorship laws intended to regulate the movie industry and retail trade in pulp fiction. Both laws had their ideological origins in grass-roots anti-'trash' campaigns inspired by early encounters with commercial mass culture and Germany's federalist structure. Before the war, activists characterized censorship as a form of youth protection. Afterwards, they described it as a form of social welfare. Local activists and authorities enforcing the decisions of federal censors made censorship familiar and respectable even as these laws became a lightning rod for criticism of the young republic. Nazi leaders subsequently refashioned anti-'trash' rhetoric to justify the stringent censorship regime they imposed on Germany.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107132047
eBook ISBN
9781316723203
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction Censorship in the Rechtsstaat, Censorship in the Sozialstaat
  9. 1 Buffalo Bill in Germany: Regional Encounters with Commercial Culture before WWI
  10. 2 Federalism and Censorship: Regulating Commercial Fiction and Movies in Imperial Germany
  11. 3 Censorship in the Rechtsstaat: Anti-“Trash” Rhetoric and National Identity in Imperial Germany
  12. 4 Censorship and “Trash” in Wartime Germany
  13. 5 Censorship in the Sozialstaat: Weimar’s Film and Publications Laws
  14. 6 Censorship, Morality, and National Identity in Weimar Germany
  15. Epilogue Schund and Schmutz in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index