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

30-Dec-02
272 pages
Published/distributed by BFI Publishing
ISBN/EAN: 9780851708836
Paperback
Price: £16.99
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Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film 
Carter, Erica
Dietrich's Ghosts is the first major English-language study of film aesthetics in the Third Reich . After Weimar cinema there followed a reorganisation of German Cinema which fostered, Carter argues, an anti-modernist mode of spectatorship geared to an appreciation of the beautiful and the sublime.

Chapters on the reconfiguring of film production and exhibition around the aesthetic principles of an idealist film art are followed by three star case studies. Emil Jannings figures as an exemplar of what Carter terms the vlkisch sublime, while Marlene Dietrich is discussed as a figure at the crossroads of modernist versus idealist conceptions of beauty in Hollywood stars. In a provocative concluding chapter, the Zarah Leander of the early war years features, finally, as a post-Dietrich emblem of the supposed sublimity of a fascist war.

Dietrich's Ghosts is a major new study which reassesses existing paradigms in German film history debates and throws suggestive new light on the icons and popular culture of the Third Reich.
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