Sternberg and Dietrich by James Phillips
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.
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 oursThis 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 *
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 *
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190915247 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190915242 |
| Title | Sternberg and Dietrich |
| Author | James Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2019-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 136 |
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