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Beteiligte: Baxter, John
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Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
©2010.
Teil von: Screen Classics Series
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: 1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN: 9780813126036
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Screen Classics Series
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Print version:: Baxter, John, Von Sternberg, Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,c2010
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Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education. The director who strutted onto the set in a turban, riding breeches, or a silk robe embraced his new persona as a world traveller, collected modern art, drove a Rolls Royce, and earned three times as much as the president. Von Sternberg traces the choices that carried the unique director from poverty in Vienna to power in Hollywood, including his eventual ostracism in Japan. Historian John Baxter reveals an artist few people knew: the aesthete who transformed Marlene Dietrich into an international star whose ambivalent sexuality and contradictory allure on-screen reflected an off-screen romance with the director. In his classic films The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930), and Blonde Venus (1932), von Sternberg showcased his trademark visual style and revolutionary representations of sexuality. Drawing on firsthand conversations with von Sternberg and his son, Von Sternberg breaks past the classic Hollywood caricature to demystify and humanize this legendary director.

Front Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
1-The Man Who Asked for Onions
2-Vienna
3-Love and Other Distractions
4-An Artist's Life
5-The World, the Flesh, and William A. Brady
6-In Uniform
7-Over There
8-Out There
9-Photographing a Thought
10-A Genuine Genius
11-Three Sheets to the Wind
12-The Ascent of Paramount
13-The City of Dreadful Night
14-A Great Man
15-Came the Dawn
16-The Lady with the Legs
17-Falling in Love Again
18-The Woman All Women Want to See
19-Spies
20-Talk Like a Train
21-Come Early, Stay Late
Photo Section
resumption of Ch.21
22-Russian Dolls
23-Moscow Rules
24-The End of the Affair
25-Cardboard Continental
26-Far Cathay
27-The Claudius Trap
28-Family Ties
29-The War at Home
30-Americana
31-The Seven Bad Years
32-Because I Am a Poet
33-The Lion Is Loose
34-"Why Have I Not Been Given a Woman?
Acknowledgments
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index.