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Sternberg and Dietrich : the phenomenology of spectacle / James Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, James, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Von Sternberg, Josef.
- Dietrich, Marlene--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dietrich, Marlene.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- James Phillips's 'Sternberg and Dietrich' reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992).
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 7, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-091526-9
- 0-19-091527-7
- 0-19-091525-0
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