List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Weimar Germany and the Cultures of Capitalist Modernity
1.1 Rethinking Weimar History
1.2 Weimar Germany: The Crises of Capitalist Modernity
1.3 Degeneration, Embodiment, and the Politics of Culture: A Marxist Perspective
1.4 The Structure of the Book
Chapter 2: Degeneration: Gender, War and the Politics of the Volkskörper
2.1 Introduction
2.2 August 1914
2.3 Women’s Protests and Left Politics
2.4 Masculinity, War, and the Cultural Politics of the Weimar Radical Right
Chapter 3: Revolution: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Question of Totality
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Nostalgia and Shock
3.3 Art, Politics, and Revolution
3.4 Expressionism and After
3.5 Totality
Chapter 4: Bodies and Minds: Art and the Politics of Degeneration
4.1 Introduction
4.2 (De)militarised Bodies: Art and Gender after War
4.3 The Prostitute
4.4 The Prosthetic Man: The Wounded or Disabled Veteran
4.5 Outsider Art: Asylums and the Cultural Politics of Madness
4.6 Primitivism, the Body, and Colonial Nostalgia
Chapter 5: Transforming Vision: Film, Photography, and the Politics of Social Hygiene
5.1 Introduction: The Birth of Homo Cinematicus
5.2 The Photo-Eye: New Modes of Vision
5.3 The Primitive Spectator: Race, Gender, Class, and the Weimar Audience
5.4 Optical Hygiene: Sanitising Vision
5.5 Racial Aesthetics: Photography, Film, and the Weimar Body
Chapter 6: Revolution and the Degeneration of the Weimar Republic: Worker Culture and the Rise of Fascism
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Towards a Worker Culture
6.3 ‘We Are the Eyes of Our Class!’: Workers’ Photography and Film
6.4 Proletarian Theatre and the Fight for the Streets
6.5 Radical Cultures of the Body: The Left and the Struggle over Abortion
6.6 In the Shadow of Fascism: Brecht, the Left, and the End of the Weimar Republic
References
Index
