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Description:Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life. From the lure of her persona as it enters our homes via television to our pleasure in the recognition of film images at rock concerts, to her place as part of the history of the Nazi period, Riefenstahl lives on in our imagination and in our cultural productions. Thus, the editorsOCO introduction to this volume examines the manner in which Riefenstahl OCyhauntsOCO debates on aesthetics and politics, and how her legacy reverberates in the contemporary cultural scene. a The essays that follow explore our highly invested discursive struggles over the meaning of her persona and films in this particular historical moment: post-unification, post-twentieth century, post-Riefenstahl. a. The editors view the collection as a three-part framework. The essays in the opening section of theabook show that Riefenstahl is still very much alive and well OCo and controversial OCo in popular culture. Fair game for the contemporary memory work, she is part of productions on the History Channel; her images provide inspiration for bands like Rammstein. Her films continue to determine the way in which we think about the Nazi period, providing instantly recognizable images and messages that often go unquestioned. We cannot separate these phenomena from RiefenstahlOCOs years of avid self-fashioning. With that fact in mind, the second section of theabook offers treatments of the shifting, mobile relationship between RiefenstahlOCOs stubborn attempts to create and control her personae and her reactions to othersOCO re-appropriations of the meanings of her life and work. Reading the texts and discourses surrounding OCyRiefenstahlOCO, these scholars treat her memoirs - and her repeated assertions about herself OCo as a springboard into understanding anew how we might approach her films in a productive way. The closing section of the volume comprises essays that go right to the heart of the matter: RiefenstahlOCOs films and photography. The new contexts, theoretical discussions and emerging discourses that animate these essays include ScarryOCOs treatise on beauty, justice and the global, the problems of history and memory, the place of RiefenstahlOCOs filmmaking technique in contemporary cinema, and her appropriation of German musical traditions, to name only some of the critical trajectories addressed in these contributions. Fueled by the work of a diverse range of scholars, then, a It insists upon a critical self-examination that maps a topography of how scholars and teachers avail themselves of RiefenstahlOCOs corpus.a"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Riefenstahl Screened: An Anthology of New Criticism. To get started finding Riefenstahl Screened: An Anthology of New Criticism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 289

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1441104534

Description: Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life. From the lure of her persona as it enters our homes via television to our pleasure in the recognition of film images at rock concerts, to her place as part of the history of the Nazi period, Riefenstahl lives on in our imagination and in our cultural productions. Thus, the editorsOCO introduction to this volume examines the manner in which Riefenstahl OCyhauntsOCO debates on aesthetics and politics, and how her legacy reverberates in the contemporary cultural scene. a The essays that follow explore our highly invested discursive struggles over the meaning of her persona and films in this particular historical moment: post-unification, post-twentieth century, post-Riefenstahl. a. The editors view the collection as a three-part framework. The essays in the opening section of theabook show that Riefenstahl is still very much alive and well OCo and controversial OCo in popular culture. Fair game for the contemporary memory work, she is part of productions on the History Channel; her images provide inspiration for bands like Rammstein. Her films continue to determine the way in which we think about the Nazi period, providing instantly recognizable images and messages that often go unquestioned. We cannot separate these phenomena from RiefenstahlOCOs years of avid self-fashioning. With that fact in mind, the second section of theabook offers treatments of the shifting, mobile relationship between RiefenstahlOCOs stubborn attempts to create and control her personae and her reactions to othersOCO re-appropriations of the meanings of her life and work. Reading the texts and discourses surrounding OCyRiefenstahlOCO, these scholars treat her memoirs - and her repeated assertions about herself OCo as a springboard into understanding anew how we might approach her films in a productive way. The closing section of the volume comprises essays that go right to the heart of the matter: RiefenstahlOCOs films and photography. The new contexts, theoretical discussions and emerging discourses that animate these essays include ScarryOCOs treatise on beauty, justice and the global, the problems of history and memory, the place of RiefenstahlOCOs filmmaking technique in contemporary cinema, and her appropriation of German musical traditions, to name only some of the critical trajectories addressed in these contributions. Fueled by the work of a diverse range of scholars, then, a It insists upon a critical self-examination that maps a topography of how scholars and teachers avail themselves of RiefenstahlOCOs corpus.a"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Riefenstahl Screened: An Anthology of New Criticism. To get started finding Riefenstahl Screened: An Anthology of New Criticism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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