Leni Riefenstahl :: the seduction of genius /

Leni Riefenstahl achieved fame as a dancer, actress, photographer, and director, but her entire career is colored by her association with the Nazi party. Appointed by Hitler, she directed the Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens along with her best-known work Olympia, a documentary of the 1936 B...

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Main Author: Rother, Rainer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2002.
Series:Propaganda! (Continuum (Firm))
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Leni Riefenstahl achieved fame as a dancer, actress, photographer, and director, but her entire career is colored by her association with the Nazi party. Appointed by Hitler, she directed the Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens along with her best-known work Olympia, a documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. By 1939 Riefenstahl was arguably the most famous woman film director in the world; yet, after World War II, she was never again accepted as a filmmaker. Rainer Rother's book provides detailed coverage, from original documentation, of those aspects of Riefenstahl's career she herself h.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 262 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Filmography: pages 233-242.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
ISBN:9781441159014
1441159010
1283272059
9781283272056
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