Jill Suzanne Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Suzanne Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Weimar's Long Shadow
Weimar casts a long shadow over post-war political thought. The Weimar Republic is used to understand contemporary threats to democracy and to critique or defend modernity. It has generated a series of political lessons that are invoked whenever democracies are challenged. This book questions the historical validity of most of these lessons and their applicability to contemporary political orders. It shows how Weimar lessons are often influenced …
Shadows of Babylon and Shreds of Artificial Silk
Smith’s chapter focuses on the continued influence of the idea of Weimar Berlin in contemporary popular culture. The chapter takes as its starting point recent cultural expressions, such as the television series Babylon Berlin , focusing on previously unexplored aspects of how Weimar is depicted as a modern Babylon. Smith identifies two particularly salient aspects in these depictions: first, that the portrait of right-wing political cultures wit…
Different from the Others
Lotte at the Movies
The citational world of the hit television series Babylon Berlin is vast and complex, but only one film appears as itself on movie theater screens in the first two seasons: Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday, 1930). Focusing on the only feature film made in Weimar Berlin that is viewed repeatedly by Babylon Berlin’s endearing female protagonist Charlotte (Lotte) Ritter and her childhood friend Greta Overbeck, this essay takes a close, critical…
Barnet Hartston. The Trial of Gustav Graef
Germany in the 1880s was a nation on the cusp of modernity. In its second decade as a nation and in its final decade under the rule of Otto von Bismarck, Germany was already a formidable industrial and military power on the European continent and hence on the world stage. As a newly unified nation, however, Germany had a civilian population that still bore the marks of regional, religious, and class differences that could not easily be erased by …
German Writing, American Reading
In her meticulously researched and clearly written study German Writing, American Reading, Lynne Tatlock persuasively documents the popularity of German novels in postbellum America. What is striking about these popular German novels is that they were not what readers today most readily associate with nineteenth-century German literature; they were not dark, fantastical tales spun by the Romantics, nor were they naturalistic depictions of the pli…
German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Berlin Coquette
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual cliches about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sex…
Reviving German-Jewish Comedy
Dani Levy's film Go for Zucker! (2004) won a myriad of prizes in 2005 and was touted as the first Jewish comedy to be produced in Germany since the rise of National Socialism. Critics and scholars who have analysed Levy's popular film tend to focus on its presentation of Jewish characters as something other than victims of the Shoah and on its comic engagement with persistent social and cultural divisions between East and West Germans in post-reu…
Just How Naughty was Berlin? The Geography of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Curt Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide
Working Girls
This article examines the conflation of the white‐collar working woman and the prostitute in late Weimar fiction, documentary literature and social discourse. In so doing, it traces the emergence of a modern discourse on prostitutes as “sex workers” in German cultural products that predate international feminist debates held in the final decades of the twentieth century. Conducting close readings of Vicki Baum's 1929 serial novel Menschen im Hote…
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Working Girls
This article examines the conflation of the white‐collar working woman and the prostitute in late Weimar fiction, documentary literature and social discourse. In so doing, it traces the emergence of a modern discourse on prostitutes as “sex workers” in German cultural products that predate international feminist debates held in the final decades of the twentieth century. Conducting close readings of Vicki Baum's 1929 serial novel Menschen im Hote…
Just How Naughty was Berlin? The Geography of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Curt Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide
Berlin Coquette
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual cliches about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sex…
Reviving German-Jewish Comedy
Dani Levy's film Go for Zucker! (2004) won a myriad of prizes in 2005 and was touted as the first Jewish comedy to be produced in Germany since the rise of National Socialism. Critics and scholars who have analysed Levy's popular film tend to focus on its presentation of Jewish characters as something other than victims of the Shoah and on its comic engagement with persistent social and cultural divisions between East and West Germans in post-reu…
German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
German Writing, American Reading
In her meticulously researched and clearly written study German Writing, American Reading, Lynne Tatlock persuasively documents the popularity of German novels in postbellum America. What is striking about these popular German novels is that they were not what readers today most readily associate with nineteenth-century German literature; they were not dark, fantastical tales spun by the Romantics, nor were they naturalistic depictions of the pli…
Barnet Hartston. The Trial of Gustav Graef
Germany in the 1880s was a nation on the cusp of modernity. In its second decade as a nation and in its final decade under the rule of Otto von Bismarck, Germany was already a formidable industrial and military power on the European continent and hence on the world stage. As a newly unified nation, however, Germany had a civilian population that still bore the marks of regional, religious, and class differences that could not easily be erased by …
Lotte at the Movies
The citational world of the hit television series Babylon Berlin is vast and complex, but only one film appears as itself on movie theater screens in the first two seasons: Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday, 1930). Focusing on the only feature film made in Weimar Berlin that is viewed repeatedly by Babylon Berlin’s endearing female protagonist Charlotte (Lotte) Ritter and her childhood friend Greta Overbeck, this essay takes a close, critical…
Weimar's Long Shadow
Weimar casts a long shadow over post-war political thought. The Weimar Republic is used to understand contemporary threats to democracy and to critique or defend modernity. It has generated a series of political lessons that are invoked whenever democracies are challenged. This book questions the historical validity of most of these lessons and their applicability to contemporary political orders. It shows how Weimar lessons are often influenced …
Shadows of Babylon and Shreds of Artificial Silk
Smith’s chapter focuses on the continued influence of the idea of Weimar Berlin in contemporary popular culture. The chapter takes as its starting point recent cultural expressions, such as the television series Babylon Berlin , focusing on previously unexplored aspects of how Weimar is depicted as a modern Babylon. Smith identifies two particularly salient aspects in these depictions: first, that the portrait of right-wing political cultures wit…
Different from the Others
History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · German (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · European history and politics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Art history (3 works)