The Blue Angel

BFI Film Classics

by S.S. Prawer

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.

Genres: Film

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2002

About the author

Full name: Siegbert Salomon Prawer.

Reviews

[James F · Rating 3 out of 5]

A volume in the British Film Institute's BFI Film Classics series, this short book discusses the making of the film and various aspects of its structure, especially the use of sound (it was one of the first sound films to really make use of sound in an intelligent way, rather than simply relying on dialogue to tell a story.)