German Media and National Identity

German Media and National Identity
Title German Media and National Identity PDF eBook
Author Sanna Inthorn
Publisher Cambria Press
Pages 258
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN 1934043958

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Fascination with what makes the Germans tick has produced a vast range of texts that explore German postwar politics, culture, and society. Yet within this considerable body of work, there is a paucity of academic analysis that acknowledges the role of media discourse in the representation and construction of German identity. This book makes an important contribution to the study of German national identity by offering a detailed and large-scale academic analysis of how German media discourse between 1998 and 2005 represents German national identity. It brings together a variety of case studies: European integration, citizenship and immigration, sports and consumption. It makes the case for the role of popular culture in the discursive formation of national identity and demonstrates that the nation is constructed against political and non-political subjects. By looking at a variety of topic contexts, this book identifies a master narrative of the German nation. It tells the story of a nation that has its roots firmly in the memory of National Socialism and constructs ethnocentric nationalism as taboo. Yet at the same time it cannot escape the past as it harbors racist images of "self" and "other." This is an important book for collections in European studies and media studies, as well as scholars engaged in studying the impact of media on culture. This book demonstrates that reports of the death of the nation-state are without any doubt exaggerated. The particular complex of discourses analysed here was and is only present in Germany. It could not be found in Germany's German-speaking neighbours such as Austria or Switzerland, or indeed anywhere else. While the influence of globalisation is undeniable, the nation-state and its media remain a key location for the negotiation of national identity and much more. This wide-ranging and engagingly written book offers us an exceptional insight into that process." - Professor Hugh O'Donnell, Glasgow Caledonian University

German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century

German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Title German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook
Author Ruth Wittlinger
Publisher New Perspectives in German Political Studies
Pages 208
Release 2010-10
Genre History
ISBN

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This book shows that German national identity has undergone considerable changes since unification in 1990. Due to the external pressures of the post-cold war world but also due to domestic developments such as recent dynamics of collective memory, Germany has re-emerged as a confident nation which is less hesitant to assert its national interest.

Soundtracking Germany

Soundtracking Germany
Title Soundtracking Germany PDF eBook
Author Melanie Schiller
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 289
Release 2018-06-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1786606232

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This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history, Soundtracking Germany describes how popular music can function as a language for “writing” national narratives. Running chronologically, all chapters historically contextualize and critically discuss the cultural relevance of the respective genre before moving into a close reading of one particularly relevant and appellative case study that reveals specific interrelations between popular music and constructions of Germanness. Close readings of these sonic national narratives in different moments of national transformations reveal changes in the narrative rhetoric as this book explores how Germanness is performatively constructed, challenged, and reaffirmed throughout the course of seventy years.

German Colonialism and National Identity

German Colonialism and National Identity
Title German Colonialism and National Identity PDF eBook
Author Michael Perraudin
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015-04-23
Genre Germany
ISBN 9781138868083

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This original study applies post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture, combining political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the examination of both metropolitan and local discourses and memories.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture
Title The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture PDF eBook
Author Eva Kolinsky
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 394
Release 1998
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521568708

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One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture - including national identity, class, Jews in German society, minorities and women, the functions of folk and mass culture, poetry, drama, theatre, dance, music, art, architecture, cinema and mass media - from the nineteenth century to the present. Guidance is given for further reading and a chronology is provided. In its totality the Companion shows how the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany are intertwined with cultural genres and their agendas of creative expression.

Fellow Tribesmen

Fellow Tribesmen
Title Fellow Tribesmen PDF eBook
Author Frank Usbeck
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 262
Release 2015-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 1782386556

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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around “Indianthusiasm.” Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis’ racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace.

The Shaping of German Identity

The Shaping of German Identity
Title The Shaping of German Identity PDF eBook
Author Len Scales
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 637
Release 2012-04-26
Genre History
ISBN 0521573335

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German identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why.