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Author Phillips, James, 1970- author.

Title Sternberg and Dietrich : the phenomenology of spectacle / James Phillips
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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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
Dietrich, Marlene -- Criticism and interpretation
Dietrich, Marlene
Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018021766
ISBN 9780190915254
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