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Competing Cityscapes: Architecture in the Cinematic Images of Postwar Berlin

Vas, Laura Terezia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1184609075

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2007, MS ARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture.
The architecture depicted in films about Berlin has played a fundamental role in fashioning the divided and unified capital’s image and cultural self-understanding, for both sides were acutely conscious of the propagandistic function of urban and architectural planning. By comparing three East-Berlin films with three thematically and chronologically corresponding West-Berlin films, this thesis investigates how cinema corresponded to the changing concepts in modernist architecture on the two sides of the wall. Whereas a competition between two world powers is carried out on a semiotic field condensing cultural, social, technological, and economic achievements - the city - this thesis shows that the diverging styles of government were struggling with similar possibilities and limitations in shaping their sections of Berlin. As opposed to Cold War films, the spatial analyses of post-Wende films show striking divergences.
Udo Greinacher (Advisor)
146 p.
Architecture
Berlin; East Berlin, West Berlin; Cold War; German cinema; Berlin Wall; Berlin&8217; s architecture; urban planning' prefabricated panel buildings

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  • Vas, L. T. (2007). Competing Cityscapes: Architecture in the Cinematic Images of Postwar Berlin [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1184609075

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vas, Laura. Competing Cityscapes: Architecture in the Cinematic Images of Postwar Berlin. 2007. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1184609075.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vas, Laura. "Competing Cityscapes: Architecture in the Cinematic Images of Postwar Berlin." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1184609075

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