Pilz, KatrinSchätz, JoachimÖhner, Vrääth2024-07-102024-07-102023https://film-history.org/index.php/issues/text/defense-culture-vienna-uraniahttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24203In the interwar period, the Vienna Urania, one of the leading institutions of adult education in Austria, developed a model of cultural education through cinematic entertainment that built on pre-World War I ideas of the cinema reform movement about the bourgeoisification of film culture. At the center of this model was a screening practice that surrounded the cinematic text with a whole series of paratexts, whose primary goal was not enlightenment but the purification of the audience's emotional life.engSüdpolexpeditionCultural filmCinema reform movementFilm culture791Ernest Shackleton10.25969/mediarep/227242627-5848