Josef Von Sternberg : The Case of Lena Smith

by Horwath, Alexander; Omasta, Michael

• ISBN13: 9783901644221
• ISBN10: 3901644229
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

This volume explores a form of contemporary art that uses sequences of images to explore ideas of space, time, movement, and duration. "Chronophotographers" first explored these ideas at the end of the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the twenty-first, artists have found that sequences offer new opportunities for exploring the aesthetics at the intersection of time and space. This book contains a number of illustrated essays by international critics and theorists and discusses the work of a wide range of artists engaged in contemporary chronophotography.

Table of Contents

Vienna, Where It All Began	p. 4
Working with Spirits. Traces of Sternberg: A Lost Film About the "City of My Dreams"	p. 9
The Sternberg Paradox: The Case of Lena Smith	p. 43
Eine Nacht im Prater [1929]	p. 83
Josef von Sternberg's The Case of Lena Smith: A Reconstruction	p. 91
The Case of Lena Smith - A Fragment	p. 236
"He Too Has the Evil Eye". On the Reception of Josef von Sternberg and Lena Smith in the Weimar Republic	p. 245
Lena X. Josef von Sternberg's Film as Reviewed by French Critics	p. 256
Vienna Gals. Karl Adolph's Tochter and Jo Sternberg's Daughters of Vienna: Two Books, One Novel	p. 267
Appendix	p. 281
Contributors	p. 298
Acknowledgments	p. 301
Illustrations	p. 303
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