greta garbo
1934, it gets them: MARLENE DIETRICH plays with the optical gender boundaries by seducing men wearing a suit and a tailcoat (»MOROCCO«, 1930), Greta Garbo declares in »QUEEN CHRISTINA« (1933) that she'd rather die alone than to get married, and Mae West even wrote her own dialogues. A quantum leap! The divas of that time were not only strong women but also sexually active ones: Through the means of cinema, they were staged as goddess-like beings who played off their sexual charms and were far away from the normal everyday woman. They were role models for them and objects of desire for the male audience. But that was not only due to their acting talents. SISTER-MAG.COM
Divas are ma de
Central aspects of staging a diva are the positioning of the camera and the lighting equipment. »THREE-POINT
LIGHTING«
was developed in Hollywood as early as the 1920s. It helped stage the respective character
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