Leni Riefenstahl
A Life
Trimborn, Jurgen
McCown, Edna (TRN)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahls uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatcheduntil 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for two of the films she made for him, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, Riefenstahls demanding and obsessive style introduced unusual angles, new approaches to tracking shots, and highly symbolic montages. Despite her lifelong claim to be an apolitical artist, Riefenstahls monumental and nationalistic vision of Germanys traditions and landscape served to idealize the cause of one of the worlds most violent and racist regimes.
Riefenstahl ardently cast herself as a passionate young director who caved to the pressure to serve an all-powerful Führer, so focused on reinventing the cinema that she didnt recognize the goals of the Third Reich until too late. Jürgen Trimborns revelatory biography celebrates this charismatic and adventurous woman who lived to 101, while also taking on the myths surrounding her. With refreshing distance and detailed research, Trimborn presents the story of a stubborn and intimidating filmmaker who refused to be held accountable for her role in the Holocaust but continued to inspire countless photographers and filmmakers with her artistry.
AUTHOR BIO
Jürgen Trimborn, born in 1971, is a professor of film, theater, and art history at the University of Cologne and serves as a consultant on films of the Third Reich for the German and American film industry. He lives and writes in Cologne and east Belgium.
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ISBN: 0865479763
ISBN(13-digit): 9780865479760
Dewey Decimal: 791.4302/8092
Library of Congress: 2006013263
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 351
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