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Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
Mila Ganeva
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Description for Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
Paperback. New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372. Discourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. 254 pages, black & white illustrations. New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ1. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight: 362.
In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on current styles. By regularly publishing on these topics in the illustrated press and popular literature, they transformed traditional genres and carved out significant public space for themselves. This book re-evaluates paradigmatic concepts of German modernism such as the flaneur, the Feuilleton, and Neue ... Read more
In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on current styles. By regularly publishing on these topics in the illustrated press and popular literature, they transformed traditional genres and carved out significant public space for themselves. This book re-evaluates paradigmatic concepts of German modernism such as the flaneur, the Feuilleton, and Neue ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135162
SKU
V9781571135162
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Reviews for Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
Ganeva's carefully researched and clearly written study is not only interesting to film studies scholars for the part that deals explicitly with film. Instead, the entire book works out parallels between the societal perception of fashion and film, both components of popular culture that promised unmatched brilliance and glamour and were medial systems that mirrored the experiences of Modernity in ... Read more