| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 125 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Dietrich's face and the talking picture -- Shanghai express: making room for faith in appearances -- Blonde Venus: a sale of two bodies -- The scarlet empress: history as farce -- The devil is a woman: against the off-screen -- Conclusion: towards an ethics of the moving image |
| Summary |
Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle explores the philosophical questions broached by the films Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made together at Paramount in the early 1930s. These are films that rethink faith, appearance, the image of women, the treatment of history and the sense of the world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2019) |
| Subject |
Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dietrich, Marlene -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dietrich, Marlene |
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Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969 |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018021766 |
| ISBN |
9780190915254 |
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0190915250 |
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9780190915261 |
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0190915269 |
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9780190915278 |
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0190915277 |
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