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Subject(s)

• Leitich, Ann Tizia 1896-1976 [Browse]
• Foreign correspondents—New York (State)—New York—Biography [Browse]
• Austrians—New York (State)—New York—Biography [Browse]
• Social historians—Austria—Vienna—Biography [Browse]
• Novelists, Austrian—Biography [Browse]
• Popular culture—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Popular culture—Austria—Vienna—History—20th century [Browse]
• Austria—Civilization—American influences [Browse]
• Austria—Relations—United States [Browse]
• United States—Relations—Austria [Browse]

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"After the First World War, Vienna was overrun by jazz, Hollywood movies, and Fordism; its citizens were both fascinated and appalled by the waves of American ideas and products. To make sense of things, readers turned to Ann Tizia Leitich, New York-based correspondent for Vienna's Neue Freie Presse. Chronicling Leitich's rise as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist and providing close readings of her writings about America, this book reveals Leitich as an important cultural mediator between Austria and America"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-207) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Amerika in Wien
• Ancient people on new ground : European culture meets American civilization
• New movies and neue Menschen : from Red Vienna to "Anatol on the Missouri"
• Stefan Zweig's "Giant wave of uniformity" : colonization, class, and the polemics of American mass culture
• Babbitt's wives and lovers : white socialism, gender, and the poetry of the machine
• Hymns to Chicago : progress, myth, and the music of the metropolis
• The Danube blues : from American mass culture to Austrian culture for the masses
• Epilogue: Delightful facts and convenient fictions : reconsidering Ann Tizia Leitich's Austria in the context of her American writings
• Chronology
• Ann Tizia Leitich : a selected bibliography.

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ISBN

• 9781571139368 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1571139362 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015019141

OCLC

922034450

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