Film and fashion amidst the ruins of Berlin : from Nazism to the Cold War /

This book steers attention toward two key aspects of German culture--film and fashion--that shared similar trajectories and multiple connections, looking at them not only in the immediate postwar years but as far back as 1939. They formed spectacular sites of the postwar recovery processes in both E...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganeva, Mila (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
Series:Screen cultures.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Vicarious Consumption : Wartime Fashion in Film and the Press, 1939-44
  • "Fashions for Fräuleins" : The Rebirth of the Fashion Industry and Media in Berlin after 1945
  • Charlotte Glückstein : Historical Ruptures and Continuities in Postwar Fashion
  • Fashion amidst the Ruins : Revisiting Two Early Rubble Films ... und über uns der Himmel (1947) and Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946)
  • Hildegard Knef : Star Appeal from Fashion to Film
  • Farewell to the Rubble and Welcome to the New Look : Straßenbekanntschaft (1948) and Martina (1949)
  • Consuming Fashion on the Screens of the Early 1950s : Modell Bianka (1951), Frauenschicksale (1952), and Ingrid : Die Geschichte eines Fotomodells (1955)
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. Principal Costume and Fashion Designers : Biographical Notes
  • Appendix 2. Films and Newsreels Discussed.