Divine Decadence : Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles /

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As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "divine decadence"--A measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "shocking" British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin. Origina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mizejewski, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Isherwood, Christopher, > 1904-1986.
Isherwood, Christopher, > 1904-1986 > Adaptations.
Isherwood, Christopher, > 1904-1986. > Goodbye to Berlin.
Isherwood, Christopher, > 1904-1986 > Characters > Sally Bowles.
Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood, Christopher)
Women in literature.
Literature.
Fascism and literature.
Decadence in literature.
Bowles, Sally (Fictitious character)
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Fascisme et litterature.
Decadence dans la litterature.
Germany > Berlin.
Berlin (Germany) > In literature.
Adaptations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CREDITS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter One. FANTASIES, FASCISM, FEMALE SPECTACLE
  • CHAPTER TWO. "Good Heter Stuff": Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and the Vision of Camp
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Cold War against Mummy: Van Druten's I Am a Camera
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Sally, Lola, and Painful Pleasures: The First On-Screen Sally Bowles
  • CHAPTER FIVE. (Nazi) Life Is a Cabaret: Sally Bowles and Broadway Musical
  • CHAPTER SIX. "Doesn't My Body Drive You Wild with Desire?": Fosse's Cabaret
  • EPILOGUE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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