IN THE REALM OF PLEASURE: VON STERNBERG, DIETRICH, AND THE MASOCHISTIC AESTHETIC.
Language: English
Published by University Of Illinois Press, Urbana And Chicago, 1988
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8vo. pp 247. Pink illustrated dust jacket lettered white and black. Original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering at spine. Black and white illustrations. ISBN: 0252015363 Slightly marked at edges of text block, else internally clean. Very good in heavily faded at spine, toned, lightly edgeworn, good dust jacket.
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- Title
- IN THE REALM OF PLEASURE: VON STERNBERG, DIETRICH, AND THE MASOCHISTIC AESTHETIC.
- Author
- STUDLAR, Gaylyn.
- Publisher
- University Of Illinois Press, Urbana And Chicago
- Publication year
- 1988
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0252015363
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015366
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In a major revision of feminist-psychoanalytic theories of film pleasure and sexual difference, Studlar's close textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich probes the source of their visual and psychological complexity.
Borrowing from Gilles Deleuze's psychoanalytic-literary approach, Studlar shows how masochism extends beyond the clinical realm, into the arena of artistic form, language, and production of pleasure. The author's examination of the von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations shows how these films, with the mother figure embodied in the alluring yet androgynous Dietrich, offer a key for understanding film's "masochistic aesthetic."
Studlar argues that masochism's broader significance to film study lies in the similarities between the structures of perversion and those of the cinematic apparatus, as a dream screen reviving archaic visual pleasures for both male and female spectators.
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