Mass Media and Historical Change. Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present

Contents

• Introduction: Approaches to Media History


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  1. The Breakthrough of Typographic Printing
  
  
  
  


• Asia as the Cradle of Printing


• A Media Revolution? The Dissemination of Gutenberg’s Invention


• Social and Cultural Consequences of Printing


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  2. The Establishment of Periodicals
  
  
  
  


• Newspapers as a New Medium


• The Newspaper and Periodical Market in the Eighteenth Century


• Interpretations, Effects and Usage of Periodicals


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  3. The Media and the Road to Modernity
  
  
  
  


• The Media, Revolutions and Nationalism, 1760–1848


• Politics and Society in the Age of Magazines and the Popular Press


• Globalisation, Colonialism and Media Transformation


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  4. Modernity, World Wars and Dictatorships
  
  
  
  


• Film and Media Culture before and during the First World War


• Golden Years? Media and ‘Mass Culture’ of the 1920s


• Fascist Dictatorships and the Second World War


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  5. The Media during the Cold War
  
  
  
  


• Media and Socialism in the GDR


• Media and the Establishment of Democracy in West Germany


• A Global Television Age?


• Epilogue: The Internet Age from the Perspective of Media History


• Bibliography


• Index