| Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin Expanded Edition Contributor(s): Gordon, Mel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0922915962 ISBN-13: 9780922915965 Publisher: Feral House OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period "Babylon on the Spree" has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. This expanded edition includes "Sex Magic and the Occult," documenting German pagan cults and their often-bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the "Sexual Fourth Dimension." Mel Gordon is professor of theater at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of "Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant" (Feral House). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 306.740 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 8.56" W x 11" (2.85 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide acclaim and multiple printings. This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from the pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period "Babylon on the Spree" has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring performers, filmmakers, historians straight and gay, designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. It is the visual scrapbook and inspired design source of hit television series, Berlin Babylon. Voluptuous Panic's expanded edition includes the new illustrated chapter "Sex Magic and the Occult," documenting German pagan cults and their bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the "Sexual Fourth Dimension." The deluxe hardcover edition also includes sensational accounts of hypno-erotic cabaret acts, Berlin fetish prostitution ("The Boot Girl Visit"), gay life ("A Wild-Boy Initiation!"), descriptions and illustrations of Aleister Crowley's Berlin OTO secret society, and sex crime ("The Curious Career and Untimely Death of Fritz Ulbrich"). |