Dietrich and Sternberg: From cabaret performance to feminist empowerment

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" Dietrich and Sternberg: From cabaret performance to feminist empowerment "
Elizabeth Anne Taylor A. McKee

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	55100
Doc. No	:	TL25054
Call number	:	‭1470969‬
Main Entry	:	Elizabeth Anne Taylor
Title & Author	:	Dietrich and Sternberg: From cabaret performance to feminist empowerment\ Elizabeth Anne Taylor
College	:	San Jose State University
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	93-n/a
Abstract	:	This thesis addresses the multivalent icon Marlene Dietrich in her first two films The Blue Angel (1929) and Morocco (1930), which were directed by Josef von Sternberg. It examines the complex roles of the two cabaret performers that Dietrich played through the lens of feminist philosopher Amy Allen's theory of empowerment articulated in her book: The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance and Solidarity. Specifically it analyzes how the cabaret personas developed personal empowerment cultivated out of two specific elements of mise-en-scène, gestures/body language and costume and how those aspects uplift the characters of Lola Frölich (The Blue Angel ) and Amy Jolly (Morocco ) into situations where these women resist heteronormative assumptions about women as sexually objectified performers existing solely for the male gaze.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Dietrich, Marlene; Sternberg, Josef von; Womens studies; Gender studies; Film studies; Feminism; Motion picture criticism; 0453:Womens studies; 0900:Film studies; 0733:Gender studies
Added Entry	:	A. McKee
Added Entry	:	San Jose State University