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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2010.
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Screen Classics Series |
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Umfang: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
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9780813126036
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Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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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. |