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001 2006049323
003 DLC
005 20071012082340.0
008 060707s2007 nyuaf b 001 0beng
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020 $a0375404007 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70630619
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050 00 $aPN1998.3.R54$bB33 2007
082 00 $a791.43023/3092$aB$222
100 1 $aBach, Steven.
245 10 $aLeni :$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.
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.
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.
600 10 $aRiefenstahl, Leni.
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zGermany$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006049323-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006049323-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/2006049323-s.html