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Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338192
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Dietrich Icon written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCollection of essays on film icon Marlene Dietrich./div
Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389673
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Dietrich Icon written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. The actress-chanteuse had a career of some seventy years: one that included not only classical Hollywood cinema and the concert hall but also silent film in Weimar Germany, theater, musical comedy, vaudeville, army camp shows, radio, recordings, television, and even the circus. Having renounced and left Nazi Germany, assumed American citizenship, and entertained American troops, Dietrich has long been a flashpoint in Germany’s struggles over its cultural heritage. She has also figured prominently in European and American film scholarship, in studies ranging from analyses of the directors with whom she worked to theories about the ideological and psychic functions of film. Dietrich Icon, which includes essays by established and emerging film scholars, is a unique examination of the many meanings of Dietrich. Some of the essays in this collection revisit such familiar topics as Germany’s complex relationship with Dietrich, her ambiguous sexuality, her place in the lesbian archive, her star status, and her legendary legs, but with fresh critical perspective and an emphasis on historical background. Other essays establish new avenues for understanding Dietrich’s persona. Among these are a reading of Marlene Dietrich’s ABC—an eclectic autobiographical compendium containing Dietrich’s thoughts on such diverse subjects as “steak,” “Sternberg (Joseph von),” “Stravinsky,” and “stupidity”—and an argument that Dietrich manipulated her voice—through her accent, sexual innuendo, and singing—as much as her visual image in order to convey a cosmopolitan world-weariness. Still other essays consider the specter of aging that loomed over Dietrich’s career, as well as the many imitations of the Dietrich persona that have emerged since the star’s death in 1992. Contributors. Nora M. Alter, Steven Bach, Elisabeth Bronfen, Erica Carter, Mary R. Desjardins, Joseph Garncarz, Gerd Gemünden, Mary Beth Haralovich, Amelie Hastie, Lutz Koepnick, Alice A. Kuzniar, Amy Lawrence, Judith Mayne, Patrice Petro, Eric Rentschler, Gaylyn Studlar, Werner Sudendorf, Mark Williams
Author : William Dietrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990662167
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Trojan Icon written by William Dietrich and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from the chilly intrigues of the Russian Court to the secretive palace of the Ottoman Empire, Ethan Gage and his family seek a relic that promises imperial invincibility.
Author : Steven Bach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452929971
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Marlene Dietrich written by Steven Bach and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including conversations with Dietrich—this is the life story of one of the century’s greatest movie actresses and performers, an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.
Author : Barbara Kosta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857456199
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Willing Seduction written by Barbara Kosta and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relationship between the two main characters, the cabaret entertainer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the high school teacher Immanuel Rath (one-time Oscar winner Emil Jannings). In addition to offering insight into some of the major debates that informed the Weimar Republic, this book demonstrates that similar issues continue to shape the contemporary cultural landscape of Germany. Barbara Kosta thus also looks at Dietrich as a contemporary cultural icon and at her symbolic value since German unification and at Lola Lola's various "incarnations."
Author : Pardis Dabashi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022682926X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Losing the Plot written by Pardis Dabashi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the “tyranny” of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—writers known for their affinities and connections to classical Hollywood—Pardis Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of these writers to the tensions between the formal properties of their novels and the characters in them. Even when they did not feature outright happy endings, classical Hollywood films often provided satisfying formal resolutions and promoted normative social and political values. Watching these films, modernist authors were reminded of what they were leaving behind—both formally and in the name of aesthetic experimentalism—by losing the plot.
Author : Clare Bielby
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134395
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Women and Death 3 written by Clare Bielby and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
Author : Sabine Haenni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682602
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films written by Sabine Haenni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting films of all time. Arranged alphabetically, each entry explores why each film is significant for those who study film and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the film was produced. Ranging from Hollywood classics to international bestsellers to lesser-known representations of national cinema, this collection is deliberately broad in scope crossing decades, boundaries and genres. The encyclopedia thus provides an introduction to the historical range and scope of cinema produced throughout the world.
Author : Marlene Dietrich
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0813195993
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Marlene written by Marlene Dietrich and published by University Press of Kentucky+ORM. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA fascinating self-portrait of one of the greatest entertainers of Hollywood’s golden age /divDIV Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting—and remains so as she chronicles her fabulous rise to stardom in Marlene. From her early career in Germany as a chorus girl to her breakout role as Lola in The Blue Angel to her courageous wartime tours, Dietrich recounts a life that captivates on the page just as she smoldered on the screen. She writes passionately of her friends—including Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Edith Piaf, among many others—and she shares memories of what she calls her greatest accomplishment: entertaining the Allied troops during World War II. A sustained expression of her bold, sophisticated style, Marlene reminds us why Dietrich remains an international icon and a true Hollywood legend. /div
Author : Simon Richter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137309733
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Women, Pleasure, Film written by Simon Richter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. Lola embodies a recognizable set of characteristics through which over time a select group of directors, actors, and audiences have responded in ways that do not succumb to the imperatives of gender. There are over thirty-five Lola films, starting with Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel: many are German, others are French, American, British, Italian, and Spanish, but her claim has also resonated in Argentina, China, Egypt, Mexico, Thailand, and the Philippines. Lola can be working class, lesbian, transgender, ethnic, suburban, or any combination. This book examines Lola as a specific and enduring aspect of the early twentieth-century "new woman": woman's forthright claim to pleasure on her own terms, liberated, if only as a cinematic fantasy, from the usual constraints of sex and gender.
Author : Andrea Slane
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326939
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)
Download or read book A Not So Foreign Affair written by Andrea Slane and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn examination of how the aesthetics of Nazi Germany have been deployed to help define the place of sexuality in U.S. political and popular culture./div
Author : J. David Riva
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814332498
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book A Woman at War written by J. David Riva and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection of interviews and photographs, the many facets of Dietrich's personality and of her life during World War II are recounted by those whose lives she touched"--Front flap of jacket.
Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253016193
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Cinema & Counter-History written by Marcia Landy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite claims about the end of history and the death of cinema, visual media continue to contribute to our understanding of history and history-making. In this book, Marcia Landy argues that rethinking history and memory must take into account shifting conceptions of visual and aural technologies. With the assistance of thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cinema and Counter-History examines writings and films that challenge prevailing notions of history in order to explore the philosophic, aesthetic, and political stakes of activating the past. Marshaling evidence across European, African, and Asian cinema, Landy engages in a counter-historical project that calls into question the certainty of visual representations and unmoors notions of a history firmly anchored in truth.
Author : Monica Storme Gallamore
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667705
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Incomparable Hildegarde written by Monica Storme Gallamore and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Incomparable Hildegarde (1906-2005) began her career as a pianist in Milwaukee's silent movie theaters, which led to the Vaudeville stage. By the 1930s, she was singing in the cabarets of Paris and London, rubbing elbows with royalty, White Russians and Josephine Baker. She then became a darling of the New York supper club scene and her name became synonymous with high-class entertainment at venues like the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room. She started fashion trends, had her own signature Revlon nail and lip color, and was the first to have song hits in the World War II era. This first biography of Hildegarde Sill covers her 70-year career, including her intimate relationship with her manager, Anna Sosenko, and emphasizes her importance in 20th-century American popular culture.
Author : George E. Dalzell
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612830161
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Messages written by George E. Dalzell and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal account of contact with the spirit realm offers insight into the mysteries of death and concrete evidence that life continues on. For most of his adult life, therapist George Dalzell didn’t believe in contact beyond the grave. But his perspective on reality was forever shifted after his friend Michael was killed. Dalzell had counseled people who claimed to hear voices. Now he was hearing a voice himself—one that was unmistakably Michael. The voice revealed information about Michael’s private life and possessions. Other phenomena followed, including apparitions of Michael and rose petals left in the pattern of an angel. And Dalzell wasn’t alone. Michael opened the channels to seven friends and family members, providing incontrovertible signs that prove he was communicating with them. In Messages, Dalzell adds indisputable confirmation of life after death. His uplifting story can offer comfort to grieving families and calm our fears of passing into the next realm.
Author : Tim Bergfelder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239414
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The German Cinema Book written by Tim Bergfelder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.
Author : Georges-Claude Guilbert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674337
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Gay Icons written by Georges-Claude Guilbert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the most significant gay icons and how did they develop? What influence do they have on gay individuals and communities? This book focuses on the superstars, femmes fatales and divas of the gay celebrity pantheon--Mae West, Julie Andrews, Britney Spears, RuPaul, Cher, Divine, Sharon Needles and many others--and their contributions to gay culture and the complications of sexual and gender identity. The author explores their allure along with the mechanisms of iconicity.
