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- Book Title
- Willing Seduction
- Publication Name
- Willing Seduction : the Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
- Title
- Willing Seduction
- Subtitle
- The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0857456199
- EAN
- 9780857456199
- ISBN
- 9780857456199
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 01/02/2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Series
- Film Europa Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Kosta's book not only adds new material..., but performs the invaluable tasks of synthesizing and building on the massive amounts of writing that has accrued around the film, its director, and stars. This makes the book ideal not only for the collections of German Studies and Film Studies scholars, but also as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses. Kosta writes with sophistication and with a secure grasp of a variety of theoretical registers. German Quarterly This interdisciplinary study will appeal to German and film studies scholars as well as readers interested in question s of gender, visuality, and the history of film. Monatshefte 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." Barbara Kosta is Professor in the Department of German Studies and an affiliated faculty member of Women's Studies and Media Arts at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses on twentieth-century and contemporary German literature, culture, and film. She is the author of Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (1994), co-author of the first-year German textbook auf deutsch (1990), and co-editor of Writing Against Boundaries: Gender, Ethnicity and Nationality in the German-speaking Context (2003).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0857456199
ISBN-13
9780857456199
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112905121
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Willing Seduction : the Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Film Europa Ser.
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
8
Lc Classification Number
Pn1997.B6713 K67 200
Edition Number
1
Reviews
"Kosta's book not only adds new material..., but performs the invaluable tasks of synthesizing and building on the massive amounts of writing that has accrued around the film, its director, and stars. This makes the book ideal not only for the collections of German Studies and Film Studies scholars, but also as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses. Kosta writes with sophistication and with a secure grasp of a variety of theoretical registers." · German Quarterly "This interdisciplinary study will appeal to German and film studies scholars as well as readers interested in question s of gender, visuality, and the history of film." · Monatshefte "By setting the Blue Angel in its broader cultural context, Kosta captivates the reader and provides important insights into cultural debates during the Weimar Republic." · European History Quarterly, "Kosta's book not only adds new material..., but performs the invaluable tasks of synthesizing and building on the massive amounts of writing that has accrued around the film, its director, and stars. This makes the book ideal not only for the collections of German Studies and Film Studies scholars, but also as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses. Kosta writes with sophistication and with a secure grasp of a variety of theoretical registers." German Quarterly "This interdisciplinary study will appeal to German and film studies scholars as well as readers interested in question s of gender, visuality, and the history of film." Monatshefte "By setting the Blue Angel in its broader cultural context, Kosta captivates the reader and provides important insights into cultural debates during the Weimar Republic." European History Quarterly, "Kosta's book not only adds new material..., but performs the invaluable tasks of synthesizing and building on the massive amounts of writing that has accrued around the film, its director, and stars. This makes the book ideal not only for the collections of German Studies and Film Studies scholars, but also as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses. Kosta writes with sophistication and with a secure grasp of a variety of theoretical registers." German Quarterly "This interdisciplinary study will appeal to German and film studies scholars as well as readers interested in question s of gender, visuality, and the history of film." Monatshefte "By setting the Blue Angel in its broader cultural context, Kosta captivates the reader and provides important insights into cultural debates during the Weimar Republic." European History Quarterly
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Mass Entertainment and "Serious" Culture Chapter 2. Distraction, Deception, and Visuality Chapter 3. Disillusionment and Esprit: Weimar's Modern Woman Chapter 4. The Seductions of Sound Chapter 5. The Actuality of The Blue Angel : Dietrich, Germany, and Mass Culture Fade Out: The Credits Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Media Studies, Europe / Germany, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Dewey Decimal
791.43/72
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Performing Arts
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