Author: Tatar, Maria
Title: Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii, 213 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. Some faint spots to spine. VG. ¶ Contents: Sexual Murder: Weimar Germany & Its Cultural Legacy: Morbid Curiosity: Why 'Lustmord'?; "Ask Mother": The Construction of Sexual Murder; Crime, Contagion & Containment: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic; Case Studies: Fighting for Life: Figurations of War, Women, & the City in the Work of Otto Dix; Life in the Combat Zone: Military & Sexual Anxieties in the Work of George Grosz; The Corpse Vanishes: Gender, Violence, & Agency in Alexander Döblin's 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'; The Killer as Victim: Fritz Lang; Reinventions: Murder in the Name of Art.

Keywords: German Social History, Weimar Germany, Literary Criticism, Gender Otto Dix, Fritx Lang Lustmord, Sexual Violence Art, Serial Murders, George Grosz Crime, Alfred Doeblin Film