Name: 'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany By Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)
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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany Summary

'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany by Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

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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'Ritzheimer's ['Trash', Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany] is a multifaceted, well-researched book that has much to offer scholars of widely varying interests. And her larger argument - that 'anti-'trash' activists ... paved a rhetorical path ... even an emotional one' to the far more brutal censoriousness of the National Socialist regime - is sobering.' David Ciarlo, American Historical Review
'... this is a wellwritten and researched work that makes several important contributions to our understanding of German history in the early twentieth century.' Jason Phillips, European History Quarterly

About Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

Kara L. Ritzheimer is an assistant professor of history at Oregon State University (OSU). She received her Ph.D. from State University of New York, Binghamton and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Center for the Humanities Fellowship at OSU, and a Faculty Research Grant from OSU. She has published previously on the topics of censorship and gender in Weimar Germany and has participated in summer seminars hosted by the German History Institute, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Fulbright Commission in Germany. She is a member of the German Studies Association and the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth.

Introduction: censorship in the Rechtsstaat, censorship in the Sozialstaat; 1. Buffalo Bill in Germany: regional encounters with commercial culture before WWI; 2. Federalism and censorship: regulating commercial fiction and movies in Imperial Germany; 3. Censorship in the Rechtsstaat: anti-'trash' rhetoric and national identity in Imperial Germany; 4. Censorship and 'trash' in wartime Germany; 5. Censorship in the Sozialstaat: Weimar's film and publications laws; 6. Censorship, morality, and national identity in Weimar Germany; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany by Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

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Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

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Cambridge University Press

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2019-02-14

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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany by Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany by Kara L. Ritzheimer (Oregon State University)

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