Author: John Baxter
Publisher: Zwemmer
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Andrew Sarris
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Andrew Sarris
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.

Author: Carole Zucker
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Josef Von Sternberg
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
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Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Josef von Sternberg was born in Vienna in 1894, went to America as a penniless immigrant, and directed his first motion picture in 1924. It was hailed as a work of genius, and he followed it with some of the most striking films of the end of the silent era. With the "talkies" began his long association with Marlene Dietrich. He was the terror of the Hollywood stage, driving his team to a frenzy in his demands for perfection. He also shaped the new medium in several decisive ways. In this book he is not merely reminiscing; in a series of key chapters he sets out his views on the nature of the cinema and of direction.

Author: University of Minnesota. University Film Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: John Baxter
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813139945
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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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.

Author: Herman G. Weinberg
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Dartmouth Film Society
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Author: Sybil DelGaudio
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This work examines the way in which the unique partnership of director (Sternberg), star (Marlene Dietrich), studio (Paramount), and designer (Travis Banton) created a series of films in which costume functions as a sign to structure each film's narrative and thematic design. Illustrated.