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Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles
By (Author) Linda Mizejewski
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
823.912
Paperback
274
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
454g
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. Originally a character in a short story by Isherwood, published in 1939, "Sally" h