Lustmord : : Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany / / Maria Tatar.
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass m...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 p.) :; 44 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART ONE Sexual Murder: Weimar Germany and Its Cultural Legacy
- Chapter One. Morbid Curiosity: Why Lustmord
- Chapter Two. "Ask Mother": The Construction of Sexual Murder
- Chapter Three. Crime, Contagion, and Containment: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic
- PART TWO Case Studies
- Chapter Four. Fighting for Life: Figurations of War, Women, and the City in the Work of Otto Dix
- Chapter Five. Life in the Combat Zone: Military and Sexual Anxieties in the Work of George Grosz
- Chapter Six. The Corpse Vanishes: Gender, Violence, and Agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Chapter Seven. The Killer as Victim: Fritz Lang's M
- Chapter Eight. Reinventions: Murder in the Name of Art
- NOTES
- INDEX