Dietrich Icon

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Dietrich Icon

Beteiligte: Kuzniar, Alice A [Mitwirkende:r]; Hastie, Amelie [Mitwirkende:r]; Lawrence, Amy [Mitwirkende:r]; Bach, Steven [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Desjardins, Mary R [Herausgeber:in]; Bronfen, Elisabeth [Mitwirkende:r]; Rentschler, Eric [Mitwirkende:r]; Carter, Erica [Mitwirkende:r]; Studlar, Gaylyn [Mitwirkende:r]; Gemünden, Gerd [Herausgeber:in]; Gemünden, Gerd [Mitwirkende:r]; Garncarz, Joseph [Mitwirkende:r]; Mayne, Judith [Mitwirkende:r]; Koepnick, Lutz [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Koepnick, Lutz [Mitwirkende:r]; Williams, Mark [Mitwirkende:r]; Haralovich, Mary Beth [Mitwirkende:r]; Desjardins, Mary R [Mitwirkende:r]; Alter, Nora M [Mitwirkende:r]; Petro, Patrice [Mitwirkende:r]; Bach, Steven [Mitwirkende:r]; Sudendorf, Werner [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Durham: Duke University Press, [2007]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (430 p); 54 b&w illustrations

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780822389675

ISBN: 9780822389675

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Schlagwörter: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Introduction. Marlene Dietrich's Appropriations -- Falling in Love Again -- I. THE ICON -- Dietrich's Face -- The Legs of Marlene Dietrich -- Marlene Dietrich: The Voice as Mask -- II. ESTABLISHING THE STAR PERSONA -- Playing Garbo: How Marlene Dietrich Conquered Hollywood -- Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich: Exile and Stardom in The Blue Angel -- The Blue Angel in Multiple-Language Versions: The Inner Thighs of Miss Dietrich -- Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus: Advertising Dietrich in Seven Markets -- Marlene Dietrich: The Prodigal Daughter -- III. "MARLENE HAS SEX BUT NO GENDER" -- Marlene Dietrich and the Erotics of Code-Bound Hollywood -- "It's Not Often That I Want a Man": Reading for a Queer Marlene -- Get/Away: Structure and Desire in Rancho Notorious -- IV. (AUTO-) BIOGRAPHY AND THE ARCHIVE -- The Order of Knowledge and Experience: Marlene Dietrich's ABC -- Dietrich Dearest: Family Memoir and the Fantasy of Origins -- An Icon between the Fronts: Vilsmaier's Recast Marlene -- "Life Goes On without Me": Marlene Dietrich, Old Age, and the Archive -- Homage, Impersonation, and Magic: An Interview with James Beaman -- "Is That Me?": The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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 Gemünden, 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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