James Phillips

Sternberg and Dietrich

The Phenomenology of Spectacle

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Produktbeschreibung

Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle explores the philosophical questions broached by the films Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made together at Paramount in the early 1930s. These are films that rethink faith, appearance, the image of women, the treatment of history and the sense of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780190915247
• ISBN-10: 0190915242
• Artikelnr.: 53306085

Autorenporträt

James Phillips is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published numerous articles on film, philosophy, and literature. He is also the author of Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (2005) and The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (2007) and the editor of Cinematic Thinking (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Dietrich's Face and the Talking Picture
1. Shanghai Express: Making Room for Faith in Appearances
2. Blonde Venus: A Sale of Two Bodies
3. The Scarlet Empress: History as Farce
4. The Devil Is a Woman: Against the Off-Screen
Conclusion: Towards an Ethics of the Moving Image
Notes
Index