'Trash,' Censorship, And National Identity In Early Twentieth-Century Germany

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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.


  • | Author: Kara L. Ritzheimer
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: Feb 14, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 328 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1107583446
  • | ISBN-13: 9781107583443
Author:
Kara L. Ritzheimer
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Feb 14, 2019
Number of pages:
328 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1107583446
ISBN-13:
9781107583443