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008 060707s2007 nyuaf b 001 0beng
010 _a 2006049323
020 _a0375404007 (alk. paper)
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099 _aRiefenstahl, L.
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100 1 _aBach, Steven.
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245 1 0 _aLeni :
_bthe life and work of Leni Riefenstahl /
_cSteven Bach.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bA.A. Knopf,
_c2007.
300 _ax, 386 p., [32] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [359]-371) and index.
505 0 _aBerlin -- Metropolis -- Debuts -- Climbing -- Higher -- Above the clouds -- The Blue Light -- Ascent -- Lightning -- The turning point -- Total devotion -- Triumph -- The Olympic idea -- Tomorrow the world -- Aftermath -- Leni at war -- Goodbye to all that -- Pariah -- Survivor -- Comeback -- Fortune and men's eyes -- The last picture show(s) -- Afterlife.
520 _aLeni 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.
600 1 0 _aRiefenstahl, Leni.
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650 0 _aMotion picture producers and directors
_zGermany
_vBiography.
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