{"product_id":"9780472025190","title":"Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin","description":"In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the so-called stabilization period, Topographies of Class maps out complex relationships between modern architecture and mass society, from Martin Wagner's planning initiatives and Erich Mendelsohn's functionalist buildings, to the most famous Berlin texts of the period, Alfred Dö blin's city novel \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e (1929) and Walter Ruttmann's city film \u003ci\u003eBerlin, Symphony of the Big City\u003c\/i\u003e (1927). Hake draws on critical, philosophical, literary, photographic, and filmic texts to reconstruct the urban imagination at a key point in the history of German modernity, making this the first study---in English or German---to take an interdisciplinary approach to the rich architectural culture of Weimar Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sabine Hake is Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eGerman National Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePopular Cinema of the Third Reich\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cover art: Construction of the Karstadt Department Store at Hermannplatz, Berlin-Neukö lln. Courtesy Bildarchiv Preeussischer Kulturbesitz \/ Art Resource, NY\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081098674416,"sku":"9780472025190","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472025190_p0.jpg?v=1763707080","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472025190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}