Imperial Vision - Stereoscopic Mass Culture in Wilhelmine Germany

The book approaches Wilhelmine Germany through the lens of one of its most popular forms of visual mass entertainment: The Kaiser-Panorama offered its audiences a rich selection of coloured, stereo-photographic imagery, contributing to forging both, a national self-image and an imperial worldview. As a visual mass medium, the Kaiser-Panorama conveyed the ‘astheticisation of politics’ (Walter Benjamin) in the Wilhelmine Era, while granting its viewers broad access to new optical worlds. The book explores its contradictory and intersection role in the history of visual media by consulting prominent works of media theory. Alina Khatib completed her PhD in 2020 at Humboldt-University Berlin.