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"Thinking in Images addresses the current crisis in film theory by offering a new methodology for interrelating theory and film texts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Michele Le Doeuff the author argures that philosophy is reliant on socio-cultural images, such as the figures of the veiled woman, the femme fatale and the seductress. The author traces the key role played by such images of woman in the theorisations of beauty, art and truth offered by Nietzsche and his successors: Derrida, Kofman and Baudrillard. Importantly, the recognition that images are crucial to theorising means that film images have the capacity to challenge and change previous theoretical models. This is demonstrated by a case study of three films from the Dietrich/Sternberg cycle: The Scarlet Empress, The Devil is a Woman and Shanghai Express. The detailed readings focus on the ways in which Dietrich's glamorous characters challenge the theorisation of woman as a beautiful object, thus offering new ways of conceptualising woman's role as the icon of beauty, art and truth."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Feminism and motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Philosophy. --- Dietrich, Marlene.
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Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Ange l ( Der blaue Engel ) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are i
Motion pictures --- Culture in motion pictures --- Women in motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Culture au cinéma --- Femmes au cinéma --- Dietrich, Marlene --- Blaue Engel (Motion picture) --- Culture in motion pictures. --- Women in motion pictures. --- History --- Losch, Maria Magdalene von --- Dietrich, Maria Magdalene --- Von Losch, Maria Magdalene --- Dietrich, Maria Magdalena --- Dietrich, Lena --- Sieber, Marlene --- Dietrich, Marie Magdalene --- Losch, Marie Magdalene von --- Dietrich, Madeleine --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Blue angel (Motion picture) --- Film and Television Studies.
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