Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Cultural Impact in Theory and Practice 1
4. I. Theorizing Cultural Impact
5. 1: The Metaphor of Cultural Impact and the Cultural Impact of Metaphor 19
6. 2: The Bombing of Dresden and the Idea of Cultural Impact 36
7. 3: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Popular Film 58
8. 4: Cultural Impact and the Power of Myth in Popular Public Constructions of Authorship 78
9. 5: Cultural Impact as Symbolic Capital: The Case of the Elite Intellectual Field 97
10. II. Directing Cultural Impact
11. 6: Frederick 300 in 2012: A Case Study of Institutional Management of Heritage in Germany 115
12. 7: “Art Needs Bread”: Supporting Literature in Germany 129
13. 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 150
14. III. Analyzing Cultural Impact
15. 9: You Shall Know Them by Their Objects: Material Culture and Its Impact in Museum Displays about National Socialism 169
16. 10: Discrepant Narratives: The Impact of Transborder Theater Festivals on Communities at the German-Polish Border 188
17. 11: The Impact of an Unperson? Peter- Paul Zahl, Peter-Jürgen Boock, and the Cultural Impact of Prison Writing 210
18. 12: The Organic Intellectual: The Public and Political Impact of Greta Kuckhoff, 1945–1949 227
19. 13: The Politics of Cultural Impact: Michael Kohlhaas in East Berlin 243
20. 14: Ingeborg Bachmann as Poet and Myth: A Case Study in Cultural Impact 260
21. 15: Sponsoring Authorial Impact: The Case of Ingo Schulze 278
22. Contributors 295
23. Index 299