Leni : the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl
by Steven Bach
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375404007
- ISBN 13
- 9780375404009
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York: A.A. Knopf,, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo, (25cm.). cloth, gilt spine, x, 386 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations CONTENTS; Prologue -- pt. 1. Berlin -- 1. Metropolis -- 2. Debuts -- 3. Climbing -- 4. Higher -- 5. Above the clouds -- 6. The Blue Light -- pt. 2. Ascent -- 7. Lightning -- 8. The turning point -- 9. Total devotion -- 10. Triumph -- 11. The Olympic idea -- 12. Tomorrow the world -- pt. 3. Aftermath -- 13. Leni at war -- 14. Goodbye to all that -- 15. Pariah -- 16. Survivor -- 17. omeback -- 18. Fortune and men's eyes -- 19. The last picture show(s) -- 20. Afterlife -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," is one of the most controversial personalities of the twentieth century. Her story is one of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Two of her films, Olympia and Triumph of the Will, are universally regarded as among the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made, but they are also insidious glorifications of Hitler and the Third Reich. Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself--biographer Bach untangles the truths and lies behind this gifted woman's lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed she knew nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and sanctified.--From publisher description..
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- Bookseller
- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112557391
- Title
- Leni : the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl
- Author
- Steven Bach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375404007
- ISBN 13
- 9780375404009
- Publisher
- A.A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8 vo, (25cm.)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Riefenstahl, Leni., Motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography.Producteurs et re´alisateurs de cine´ma -- Allemagne -- Biographies., , Motion picture producers and directors., Germany.
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- Photography; Biography & Autobiography;
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