Reinventing Consumption Traditions through the Process of Unification of a Country: Understanding “Good Bye Lenin!”

This paper focuses on the change of consumption traditions in terms of re-unification of a country. The discussion bases on the movie, “Good Bye Lenin!”(2003) and chases the transformations on consumption trends in order to understand how the re-unification of East and West Germany influences the pr...

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Published in:	CINEJ Cinema Journal
Main Author:	Ece Ceren Engür
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Pittsburgh 2016-02-01
Subjects:	consumption, Good Bye Lenin, Germany, global consumerism, traditions
Online Access:	http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/128

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