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Women in Weimar fashion : discourses and displays in German culture, 1918-1933 / Mila Ganeva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ganeva, Mila.
- Series:
- Screen cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--Women authors.
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Fashion in literature.
- Motion pictures, German--History.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Fashion in motion pictures.
- Fashion--Germany--History--20th century.
- Fashion.
- Popular culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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 Sachlichkeit in the light of primary material unearthed in archival research: fashion vignettes, essays, short stories, travelogues, novels, films, documentaries, newsreels, and photographs. Unlike other studies of Weimar culture that have ignored the crucial role of fashion, the book proposes a new genealogy of women's modernity by focusing on the discourse and practice of Weimar fashion, in which the women were transformed from objects of male voyeurism into subjects with complex, ambivalent, and constantly shifting experiences of metropolitan modernity.
- Contents:
- Introduction : on fashion, women, and modernity
- The fashion journalist : flâneur or new woman?
- Fashion journalism at Ullstein House
- In the waiting room of literature : Hellen Grund and the practice of fashion and travel writing
- Weimar film as fashion show
- The mannequins
- Fashion and fiction : women's modernity in Irmgard Keun's novel Gilgi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-226) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781571132055
- 1571132058
- OCLC:
- 183928739
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