Dietrich's Ghosts
The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film
Published on 7. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-85170-883-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This study contributes to contemporary debates concerning the historical study of film spectatorship.
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Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85170-883-6 (9780851708836)
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Person
Erica Carter is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Warwick and author of How German is She?: Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).
Content
Stars as objects of ambivalence.- Film as art a cinema of Personlichkeit.- The new film art reception.- Film stars and the volkisch sublime Emil Jannings' 'Little Dreamer'.- Marlene Dietrich German beauty or Hollywood spectacle?.- Femininity and the sublime Zarah Leander.- 'race' and star image Ferdinand Marian.