Lustmord : sexual murder in Weimar Germany / Maria Tatar.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995], ©1995.

xii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographic references (p. [185]-208) and index

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 of 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.

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