It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Nu har Lundagård nr 2 kommit ut, och i den tryckta utgåvan kan den uppmärksamme läsaren finna en intervju med denna webbsidas upphovskvinna. (Jag vet inte om de kommer att lägga ut den på nätet, men själv har jag scannat in hela härligheten.)
Det finns få saker som är pinsammare än att läsa om sig själv, [...]
The website of Swedish national television has an archive of historical film clips, among them a lovely collection of fashion shows and programs from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. That’s what I call public service.
I apologise for any broken links on my main site. I was tired of pink and updated the layout to match the Goldenbird site. I also have a new blog called Punalippu. It’s about propaganda and stuff. In Finnish (and possibly Swedish).
Spiegel Online has a nice article about the 1920’s trend of movies about young and independent women. They were called “flappers”, “new women”, モダーンガール。 Stars like Clara Bow, Greta Garbo and Louise Brooks played rebel girls or working women in a type of you-can-do-it stories that seem very modern, very post-1950’s, today. The Berlinale film [...]