Lustmord : sexual murder in Weimar Germany / Maria Tatar.

Author/creator Tatar, Maria, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Descriptionxii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Murder--Germany. --History. --20th century.
Sex crimes--Germany. --History. --20th century.
Serial murders--Germany. --History. --20th century.
Murder in literature.
Murder in art.

Contents Morbid curiosity: why Lustmord? -- "Ask mother": the construction of sexual murder -- Crime, contagion, and containment: sexual murder in the Weimar republic -- Fighting for life: figurations of war, women, and the city in the work Otto Dix -- Life in the combat zone: military and sexual anxieties in the work of George Grosz -- The Corpse vanishes: gender, violence, and agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz -- The killer as victim: Fritz Lang's M -- Reinventions: murder in the name of art.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-208) and index.
LCCN 94048601
ISBN0691043388 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HV6535.G3 T38 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold