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Wieland, Karin.
Subjects
Dietrich, Marlene.
Riefenstahl, Leni.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Germany -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography.
Women entertainers -- Germany -- Biography.
Women entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Women in motion pictures -- Biography.
Sex role in motion pictures -- Biography.
Motion pictures in propaganda -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Wieland, Karin.
Dietrich, Marlene.
Riefenstahl, Leni.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Germany -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography.
Women entertainers -- Germany -- Biography.
Women entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Women in motion pictures -- Biography.
Sex role in motion pictures -- Biography.
Motion pictures in propaganda -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Dietrich
&
Riefenstahl
:
Hollywood
,
Berlin
, and a
century
in
two
lives
/ Karin Wieland ; translated by Shelley Frisch.
by
Wieland, Karin.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2015]
Call #:
791.43028 D566w
Subjects
Dietrich
, Marlene.
Riefenstahl
, Leni.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Germany -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography.
Women entertainers -- Germany -- Biography.
Women entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Women in motion pictures -- Biography.
Sex role in motion pictures -- Biography.
Motion pictures in propaganda -- Germany -- History -- 20th
century
.
ISBN:
9780871403360 (hc.)
0871403366 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Dietrich
and
Riefenstahl
:
Hollywood
,
Berlin
, and a
century
in
two
lives
Edition:
1st edition.
Description:
vii, 612 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Youth (1901-1923). The streets of
Berlin
; Body, art, and war -- Carving out a career (1923-1932). Early sorrow ; Blue -- Success (1932-1939).
Hollywood
;
Berlin
-- War (1939-1945). The amazon ; The soldier -- Prosecution (1945-1954). The witness ; The accused -- New chapter of fame (1954-1976). The icon ; Camp -- The end game (1976-2003). In the mattress crypt ; At the bottom of the sea.
Summary:
"This dual biography examines
two
complex
lives
that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the
century
's greatest conflict. Born at the dawn of the twentieth
century
, Leni
Riefenstahl
and Marlene
Dietrich
both came of age in Weimar
Berlin
, a time of great political ferment. Glamour and decadence thrived beside abject poverty, and the German capital's outpouring of literature, fashion, and film marked it as the most vital European metropolis. As young women of this era,
Dietrich
and
Riefenstahl
lived so close to each other that
Riefenstahl
could see into
Dietrich
's apartment from the roof of her building. Both women seized upon the revolutionary energy of the 1920s, seeking careers on the stage and in film. In 1929, filmmakers were casting what would become the iconic role of Lola-Lola in the groundbreaking sound film The Blue Angel.
Riefenstahl
, whose work in her "mountain films" had already made her a national emblem for the athletic rigor and spirited independence of the New Woman, hoped for the part but didn't get it. Only a few years later she became the official filmmaker of the Third Reich.
Dietrich
, however, won the role and the adoration of millions when she moved to
Hollywood
and redefined the "vixen" for a new era. While
Dietrich
's slender and androgynous beauty made her a fashion icon whose influence can be seen to this day,
Riefenstahl
's own iconography is no less indelible. With her work on
two
of the most notorious, if artistically sophisticated, propaganda films of all time -- Triumph of the Will and Olympia --
Riefenstahl
was a progenitor of fascist symbolism. After the war she proclaimed her ignorance of Hitler's motives, but she could never completely distance herself from her Nazi collaboration.
Dietrich
vehemently condemned Hitler during World War II and found a renewed sense of purpose touring with the USO, but as a result she could never comfortably return to her native Germany. Both women were prodigies of will, discipline, endurance, self-reinvention, and exaltation of the body in all its muscular, androgynous, pose-striking pagan glory, and both had their grand passions, but neither abandoned ambition for the sake of love. As biographer Karin Wieland shows, in their later years, both women grappled with controlling their image --
Riefenstahl
by pursuing an additional career in photography, and
Dietrich
by eventually hiding at home as her famous beauty was ravaged by time. Skillfully juxtaposing these
two
fascinating
lives
, Wieland brings to vivid life a time of international upheaval, chronicling radical evolutions of politics, fame, and femininity on a grand stage.
Two
diverging but lasting images of the modern woman"--Provided by publisher.
Other authors:
Frisch, Shelley Laura.
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