Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different
audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. The actress-chanteuse had
a career of some seventy years: one that included not only
classical Hollywood cinema and the concert hall but also silent
film in Weimar Germany, theater, musical comedy, vaudeville, army
camp shows, radio, recordings, television, and even the circus.
Having renounced and left Nazi Germany, assumed American
citizenship, and entertained American troops, Dietrich has long
been a flashpoint in Germany's struggles over its cultural
heritage. She has also figured prominently in European and American
film scholarship, in studies ranging from analyses of the directors
with whom she worked to theories about the ideological and psychic
functions of film. Dietrich Icon, which includes essays by
established and emerging film scholars, is a unique examination of
the many meanings of Dietrich.Some of the essays in this collection
revisit such familiar topics as Germany's complex relationship with
Dietrich, her ambiguous sexuality, her place in the lesbian
archive, her star status, and her legendary legs, but with fresh
critical perspective and an emphasis on historical background.
Other essays establish new avenues for understanding Dietrich's
persona. Among these are a reading of Marlene Dietrich's ABC-an
eclectic autobiographical compendium containing Dietrich's thoughts
on such diverse subjects as "steak," "Sternberg (Joseph von),"
"Stravinsky," and "stupidity"-and an argument that Dietrich
manipulated her voice-through her accent, sexual innuendo, and
singing-as much as her visual image in order to convey a
cosmopolitan world-weariness. Still other essays consider the
specter of aging that loomed over Dietrich's career, as well as the
many imitations of the Dietrich persona that have emerged since the
star's death in 1992. Contributors. Nora M. Alter, Steven Bach,
Elisabeth Bronfen, Erica Carter, Mary R. Desjardins, Joseph
Garncarz, Gerd Gemunden, Mary Beth Haralovich, Amelie Hastie, Lutz
Koepnick, Alice A. Kuzniar, Amy Lawrence, Judith Mayne, Patrice
Petro, Eric Rentschler, Gaylyn Studlar, Werner Sudendorf, Mark
Williams
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