Sternberg and Dietrich

The Phenomenology of Spectacle

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de James Phillips

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Josef von Sternberg

Mots Clés

Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich

Année d'édition

2019

Editeur

Oxford University Press

Langue

anglais

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Hardcover • 136 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-091524-7

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Description de l'ouvrage:
• Takes seriously Josef von Sternberg's claim to have offered a "cinematic philosophy" with his work
• Re-evaluates the productions of a major American filmmaker long often censured for superficiality and aestheticism

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his contemporaries one of the most significant directors of interwar Hollywood, Sternberg made seven films with Dietrich that helped establish her as a style icon and star and entrenched his own reputation for extravagance and aesthetic spectacle. These films enriched the technical repertoire of the industry, challenged the sexual mores of the times and notoriously tried the patience of management at Paramount Studios. Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle demonstrates how under Sternberg's direction Paramount's sound stages became laboratories for novel thought experiments. Analysing in depth the last four films on which Sternberg and Dietrich worked together, Phillips reconstructs the "cinematic philosophy" that Sternberg claimed for himself in his autobiography and for whose fullest expression Dietrich was indispensable. This book makes a case for the originality and perceptiveness with which these films treat such issues as the nature of trust, the status of appearance, the standing of women, the ethics and politics of the image, and the relationship between cinema and the world. Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reveals that more is at stake in these films than the showcasing of a new star and the confectionery of glamour: Dietrich emerges here as a woman who is at ease in the world without being at home in it, an image of autonomy whose critical potential has yet to be realized, let alone exhausted.

À propos de l'auteur :
James Phillips, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales 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).

Revue de Presse:
"While Phillips's starting point and purpose may be philosophical, Sternberg and Dietrich is genuinely, and imaginatively, engaged with the films under consideration, with their maker and their star, excavating the progress and the structure of its own pleasure and fascination— and ours. This absorbing book thinks afresh about the experience of cinematic perception, about spectacle and spectatorship, the agency of images, the auteur's voice, the aura of stars. Phillips invites us to re-examine these ideas not in academic isolation but, to borrow his phrase, within the horizon of human interaction." - Noa Steimatsky, author of The Face on Film

"There can be no debating that Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomoneology of Spectacle constitutes a superb study of the seven films that the German pair made together between 1930 and 1935-but this hardly begins to convey the book's achievement. Whether he's writing about the eponymous collaborators, the function of the close-up, the liabilities of the off-screen, the nature of cinematic spectacle, Kant's account of beauty, or Levinasian ethics, Phillips remains inexhaustibly insightful, abidingly rigorous, and mercifully clear. Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomoneology of Spectacle is not a book to be missed." - Gregory Flaxman, UNC Chapel Hill

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