Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (Hardcover)

"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 anti-modernist 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.

General

Imprint:	Bfi Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Erica Carter
Dimensions:	241 x 159 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-85170-882-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	0-85170-882-X
Barcode:	9780851708829

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