Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film - Softcover

Carter, Erica

 
9780851708836: Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0851708838 ISBN 13: 9780851708836
Verlag: BFI Publishing, 2007

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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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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).

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Dietrich's Ghosts is the first major English-language study to look at the star system under the Third Reich. Erica Carter argues that after the Weimar period, the German star system was reorganized to foster an antimodernist mode of spectatorship geared to an appreciation of the beautiful and the sublime. Carter discusses the reconfiguring of film production and exhibition around idealist aesthetic principles and offers case studies of three stars. Emil Jannings figures as an exemplar of what Carter terms the volkisch sublime, while Marlene Dietrich emerges as a figure at the crossroads of modernist and idealist conceptions of beauty. A provocative chapter on Zarah Leander in the feature films of the early war years portrays this star as a post-Dietrich emblem of the supposed sublimity of a fascist war. This unprecedented new study reassesses existing paradigms in German film history debates and throws suggestive new light on the icons and popular culture of the Third Reich.

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Verlag
BFI Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0851708838
ISBN 13 
9780851708836
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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