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Author : John Baxter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126012
This title presents Von Sternberg as a real individual, in a real setting. The author not only presents the facts, but embellishes Von Sternberg's life with his own interpretations.
Author : Alexander Horwath,Michael Omasta
Publisher : Austrian Film Museum
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015074230700
In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brought to life his youthful memories of the turn of the 20th century through the story a young woman fighting the oppressive class system of Imperial Vienna. Critic Dwight Macdonald called it "the most completely satisfying American film I have seen." And yet, only a short fragment survives. Assembling 150 original stills and set designs, numerous script and production documents and essays by eminent film historians, the book reconstructs one of the legendary lost masterpieces of the American cinema. It also includes essays by Janet Bergstrom, Gero Gandert, Franz Grafl, Alexander Horwath, Hiroshi Komatsu and Michael Omasta, a preface by Meri von Sternberg, as well as contemporary reviews and excerpts from Viennese literature of the era.
Author : Andrew Sarris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Josef Von Sternberg
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : LCCN:67079379
Josef von Sternberg was born in Vienna in 1894, went to America as a penniless immigrant, and directed his first motion picture in 1924. It was hailed as a work of genius, and he followed it with some of the most striking films of the end of the silent era. With the "talkies" began his long association with Marlene Dietrich. He was the terror of the Hollywood stage, driving his team to a frenzy in his demands for perfection. He also shaped the new medium in several decisive ways. In this book he is not merely reminiscing; in a series of key chapters he sets out his views on the nature of the cinema and of direction.
Author : James Palmer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571321476
Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia, the last time in history a country was seized by an army mounted on horses. He was a Kurtz-like figure, slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. And his is a story that rehearses later horrors in Russia and elsewhere. James Palmer's book is an epic recreation of a forgotten episode and will establish him as a brilliant popular historian.
Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Zwemmer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003938217
Author : Herman G. Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1150123962
Author : Gaylyn Studlar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Feminism and motion pictures
ISBN : 9780231082334
In a major revision of feminist-psychoanalytic theories of film pleasure and sexual difference, Studlar's close textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich probes the source of their visual and psychological complexity. Borrowing from Gilles Deleuze's psychoanalytic-literary approach, Studlar shows how masochism extends beyond the clinical realm, into the arena of artistic form, language, and production of pleasure. The author's examination of the von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations shows how these films, with the mother figure embodied in the alluring yet androgynous Dietrich, offer a key for understanding film's "masochistic aesthetic." Studlar argues that masochism's broader significance to film study lies in the similarities between the structures of perversion and those of the cinematic apparatus, as a dream screen reviving archaic visual pleasures for both male and female spectators.
Author : Andrew Sarris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015006793817
From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.
Author : Karen Hollinger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415977920
Examining the major issues in studying film acting, stardom and the Hollywood actress, this book combines theories of screen acting and film stardom to present the student with a fresh approach to these two popular study topics.
Author : Ryan Jay Friedman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813550480
In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and African American newspapers celebrated a "vogue" for "Negro films." "Hollywood's African American Films" argues that the movie business turned to black musical performance to both resolve technological and aesthetic problems introduced by the medium of "talking pictures" and, at the same time, to appeal to the white "Broadway" audience that patronized their most lucrative first-run theaters. Capitalizing on highbrow associations with white "slumming" in African American cabarets and on the cultural linkage between popular black musical styles and "natural" acoustics, studios produced a series of African American-cast and white-cast films featuring African American sequences. Ryan Jay Friedman asserts that these transitional films reflect contradictions within prevailing racial ideologies--arising most clearly in the movies' treatment of African American characters' decisions to migrate. Regardless of how the films represent these choices, they all prompt elaborate visual and narrative structures of containment that tend to highlight rather than suppress historical tensions surrounding African American social mobility, Jim Crow codes, and white exploitation of black labor.
Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814724095
Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge the enormous role the media plays in our culture, we have only a vague sense of how it actually influences our attitudes and desires. In Perverse Spectators, Janet Staiger argues that studying the interpretive methods of spectators within their historical contexts is both possible and necessary to understand the role media plays in culture and in our personal lives. This analytical approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence, the role of ratings codes, the horror and suspense genre, historical accuracy in film, and sexual identities, and then demonstrated through works like JFK, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Psycho, and A Clockwork Orange. Each chapter shows a different approach to reconstructing audience responses to films, consistently and ingeniously finding traces of what would otherwise appear to be unrecoverable information. Using vivid examples, charting key concepts, and offering useful syntheses of long-standing debates, Perverse Spectators constitutes a compelling case for a reconsideration of the assumptions about film reception which underlie contemporary scholarship in media studies. Taking on widely influential theories and scholars, Perverse Spectators is certain to spark controversy and help redefine the study of film as it enters the new millennium.
Author : Herman G. Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1088793920
Author : William Farina
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786468638
The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us. During the 20th century, its most prominent American exponents were the Germans Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya, whose careers extended through the 1970s. Because of them (and others), the words and music of such artists as Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hollaender, and Marcellus Schiffer continue to be heard and exert widespread influence. Major songwriters touched by cabaret include Lennon & McCartney, Bacharach & David, Kander & Ebb, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, and Patti Smith, among many others. African-American artists, beginning with Louis Armstrong, have been sympathetic interpreters of cabaret music. Modern-day Las Vegas appears to be the fulfillment of a prophecy made in the late 1920s by Weill & Brecht in their Mahagonny stage works. And today, the German Kabarett tradition remains strong with such stars as Ute Lemper and Max Raabe packing international venues.
Author : Curtis Harrington,Josef Von Sternberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : OCLC:651891041