Contents

pp v-vi

Introduction: Cultural Impact in Theory and Practice

pp 1-16

I - Theorizing Cultural Impact

pp 17-18

1 - The Metaphor of Cultural Impact and the Cultural Impact of Metaphor

pp 19-35

2 - The Bombing of Dresden and the Idea of Cultural Impact

pp 36-57

3 - Understanding the Cultural Impact of Popular Film

pp 58-77

4 - Cultural Impact and the Power of Myth in Popular Public Constructions of Authorship

pp 78-96

5 - Cultural Impact as Symbolic Capital: The Case of the Elite Intellectual Field

pp 97-112

II - Directing Cultural Impact

pp 113-114

6 - Frederick 300 in 2012: A Case Study of Institutional Management of Heritage in Germany

pp 115-128

7 - “Art Needs Bread”: Supporting Literature in Germany

pp 129-149

8 - “I’ve been told . . . that the play is far too German”: The Interplay of Institution and Dramaturgy in Shaping British Reactions to German Theater

pp 150-166

III - Analyzing Cultural Impact

pp 167-168

9 - You Shall Know Them by Their Objects: Material Culture and Its Impact in Museum Displays about National Socialism

pp 169-187

10 - Discrepant Narratives: The Impact of Transborder Theater Festivals on Communities at the German-Polish Border

pp 188-209

11 - The Impact of an Unperson? Peter-Paul Zahl, Peter-Jürgen Boock, and the Cultural Impact of Prison Writing

pp 210-226

12 - The Organic Intellectual: The Public and Political Impact of Greta Kuckhoff, 1945–1949

pp 227-242

13 - The Politics of Cultural Impact: Michael Kohlhaas in East Berlin

pp 243-259

14 - Ingeborg Bachmann as Poet and Myth: A Case Study in Cultural Impact

pp 260-277

15 - Sponsoring Authorial Impact: The Case of Ingo Schulze

pp 278-294

Notes on the Contributors

pp 295-298

Index

pp 299-310