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No other German filmmaker has incited as much controversy as Leni Riefenstahl. Her films haunt debates on aesthetics and politics just as the subject "Riefenstahl" has fascinated and confounded scholars, critics and moviegoers alike. Riefenstahl Screened: An Anthology of New Criticism gathers a series of critical voices in a volume that, far from offering the last word on the filmmaker and her films, aims to complicate further the disputes surrounding this iconic figure.
The contributions in the volume offer new perspectives on the filmmaker and her work. Topics include Riefenstahl's influence on pop culture, her role in constructing the image of fascism, the use of footage from Triumph of the Will in postwar cinema, and her failure to capture the beauty of soccer in the Olympia films. Other essays in the anthology examine Riefenstahl's use of music in her Nazi-era work, her presence on the television screen and in documentaries, and her attempts at resuscitating her career in the postwar period. Scholars in the volume examine the appropriation of Riefenstahl's images by heavy metal bands, the presentation of her life and work on her website and in museums, her early career as a dancer, and her later work in photographing the Sudanese Nuba and the world's coral reefs. With its analyses of specific films, its explorations of Riefenstahl's biography and its excavations of the historical and aesthetic contexts of both, Riefenstahl Screened is the most comprehensive reflection on this controversial figure to date
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