Women in Weimar fashion : discourses and displays in German culture, 1918-1933 / Mila Ganeva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ganeva, Mila, author.

Series:

Screen cultures.

Screen cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

German literature.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 'flâneur,' 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. Mila Ganeva is Associate Professor of German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Oct 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-226) and index.

ISBN:

1-78204-448-5

1-282-94681-1

9786612946813

1-57113-809-9