Gemünden / Desjardins Dietrich Icon

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8967-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 430 Seiten

Collection of essays on film icon Marlene Dietrich.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gemünden, Gerd

Desjardins, Mary R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bach, Steven

Koepnick, Lutz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Prelude

Introduction: Marlene Dietrich’s Appropriations / Mary R. Desjardins and Gerd Gemünden 3

Falling in Love Again / Steven Bach 25

I. The Icon

Dietrich’s Face / Lutz Koepnick 43

The Legs of Marlene Dietrich / Nora M. Alter 60

Marlene Dietrich: The Voice as Mask / Amy Lawrence 79

II. Establishing the Star Persona

Playing Garbo: How Marlene Dietrich Conquered Hollywood / Joseph Garncarz 103

Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich: Exile and Stardom in The Blue Angel / Elisabeth Bronfen 119

The Blue Angel in Multiple-Language Versions: The Inner Thighs of Miss Dietrich / Patrice Petro 141

Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus: Advertising Dietrich in Seven Markets / Mary Beth Haralovich 162

Marlene Dietrich: The Prodigal Daughter / Erica Carter 186

III. “Marlene Has Sex But No Gender”

Marlene Dietrich and the Erotics of Code-Bound Hollywood / Gaylyn Studlar 211

“It’s Not Often That I Want a Man”: Reading for a Queer Marlene / Alice A. Kuzniar 239

Get/Away: Structure and Desire in Rancho Notorious / Mark Williams 259

IV. (Auto-) Biography and the Archive

The Order of Knowledge and Experience: Marlene Dietrich’s ABC / Amelie Hastie 289

Dietrich Dearest: Family Memoir and the Fantasy of Origins / Mary R. Desjardins 310

An Icon between the Fronts: Vilsmaier’s Recast Marlene / Eric Rentschler 328

“Life Goes On without Me”: Marlene Dietrich, Old Age, and the Archive / Judith Mayne 347

“Is That Me?”: The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin / Werner Sudendorf 376

Bibliography 385

Contributors 401

Index 405

Über Autor(innen)

Gerd Gemünden is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination and coeditor of The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition.Mary R. Desjardins is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College.