Dietrich icon

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Dietrich icon

Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins, editors

Duke University Press, 2007

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-400) and index

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内容説明

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

目次

Acknowledgments vii Prelude Introduction: Marlene Dietrich's Appropriations / Mary R. Desjardins and Gerd Gemunden 3 Falling in Love Again / Steven Bach 25 I. The Icon Dietrich's Face / Lutz Koepnick 43 The Legs of Marlene Dietrich / Nora M. Alter 60 Marlene Dietrich: The Voice as Mask / Amy Lawrence 79 II. Establishing the Star Persona Playing Garbo: How Marlene Dietrich Conquered Hollywood / Joseph Garncarz 103 Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich: Exile and Stardom in The Blue Angel / Elisabeth Bronfen 119 The Blue Angel in Multiple-Language Versions: The Inner Thighs of Miss Dietrich / Patrice Petro 141 Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus: Advertising Dietrich in Seven Markets / Mary Beth Haralovich 162 Marlene Dietrich: The Prodigal Daughter / Erica Carter 186 III. "Marlene Has Sex But No Gender" Marlene Dietrich and the Erotics of Code-Bound Hollywood / Gaylyn Studlar 211 "It's Not Often That I Want a Man": Reading for a Queer Marlene / Alice A. Kuzniar 239 Get/Away: Structure and Desire in Rancho Notorious / Mark Williams 259 IV. (Auto-) Biography and the Archive The Order of Knowledge and Experience: Marlene Dietrich's ABC / Amelie Hastie 289 Dietrich Dearest: Family Memoir and the Fantasy of Origins / Mary R. Desjardins 310 An Icon between the Fronts: Vilsmaier's Recast Marlene / Eric Rentschler 328 "Life Goes On without Me": Marlene Dietrich, Old Age, and the Archive / Judith Mayne 347 "Is That Me?": The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin / Werner Sudendorf 376 Bibliography 385 Contributors 401 Index 405

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詳細情報
  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB01453715
  • ISBN
    • 9780822338062
    • 9780822338192
  • LCCN
    2006027827
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Durham
  • ページ数/冊数
    vi, 420 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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