Film, Film History & Criticism

Blue Angel

Name: Blue Angel
Author: S.S. Prawer
ISBN: 9780851709352

by S.S. Prawer, S. S. Prawer

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Overview

This comprehensive study reconstructs the production history of The Blue Angel, showing how Sternberg's virtuoso visual style was amply supported by an immensely talented team of actors and technicians. The book also analyzes the film's aesthetics.

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About the Author, S.S. Prawer

S. S. Prawer is Taylor Professor Emeritus of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Caligari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror (1980) and Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse (1997), among other books.