Barbara Kosta

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Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass CultureHardcover, 1 May 2009

Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
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Part of Series
Film Europa
Part of Series
Film Europa, 8
Part of Series
Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context
Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date Published
1 May 2009
ISBN-10
184545572X
ISBN-13
9781845455729

Description

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."

Product Details

Author:
Barbara Kosta
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 May 2009
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm
ISBN-10:
184545572X
ISBN-13:
9781845455729
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Weight:
449.06 gm

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