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

By:

Bach, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : A.A. Knopf , 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 386 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780375404009

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 RIE

Contents:

Berlin -- 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

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. Relying on new sources, 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 RIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		023477

Includes bibliographical references p. 359 - 371 and 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. Relying on new sources, 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.

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