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050 00 PN1998.3.R54 |bB33 2007
100 1  Bach, Steven.
245 10 Leni : |bthe life and work of Leni Riefenstahl / |cSteven Bach.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bA.A. Knopf, |c2007.
300    x, 386 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c25 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-371) and index.
520    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. Two of her films, Olympia and Triumph of the Will, are universally regarded as among the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made, but they are also insidious glorifications of Hitler and the Third Reich. Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself--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--From publisher description.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Riefenstahl, Leni.
650  0 Motion picture producers and directors |zGermany |vBiography.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006049323-b.html
856 42  |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006049323-d.html
852 0   |bstacks |hPN1998.3.R54 |iB33 2007