Konsum und Imagination
Subtitle: das Warenhaus und die Moderne in Film und Literatur = Tales of Commerce and Imagination : Department stores and modernity in film and literature
By: Godela Weiss-Sussex/Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Hrsg./eds.).
Edition: Erster Auflage.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783631642337; 9783653037432
Subjects: Motion pictures; Modernism (Literature); Department stores in motion pictures; Department stores in literature; German literature; History and criticism; History
Other titles: Tales of commerce and imagination
Description: Until the 1930s department stores provided, in Germany as elsewhere, one of the focal points of cultural and critical engagement with modernity and consumer culture. The authors of this volume explore the diversity of the discourse on department stores in literature, the feuilleton, musicals and film. They demonstrate the scope of the discourse from cultural criticism to more progress-oriented examinations of the theme. Novels by Zola, Brecht and Fallada are discussed, as well as writings by lesser known authors. Attention is paid to the emancipatory potential of department stores as well as to the aesthetics of consumption as reflected in literature, film and other media --