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Author:

Bach, Steven.

Title:

Leni : the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl / Steven Bach.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

A.A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 386 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Riefenstahl, Leni.
Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography.
Films.
Duitsland.
Riefenstahl, Leni.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma--Allemagne--Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-371) and index.

Contents:

Index. 20. 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. Comeback -- 18. Fortune and men's eyes -- 19. The last picture show(s) -- 20. Afterlife -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0375404007 (alk. paper)
9780375404009 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006049323

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)