Cosmopolitan Women Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl

• Published in: Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space p. 295
• Main Author: Patrice Petro
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Indiana University Press 02.04.2014
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied arts; Art Deco; Art genres and movements; Art history; Arts; Authoritarianism; Behavioral sciences; Business; Communications; Communications media; Cosmopolitanism; Cultural anthropology; Cultural industries; Cultural studies; Design; Entertainment industries; Fascism; Fashion design; Film studies; Human societies; Industrial sectors; Industry; Mass communication; Mass media; Motion picture industry; Movies; Nazism; News media; Periodicals; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political science; Popular culture; Print media; Serial publications; Social movements; Social sciences; Sociology; Visual materials

Recent years have witnessed new scholarly interest in concepts and practices of cosmopolitanism across a range of disciplines, even as the term itself remains contested and elusive. As Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen argue, For some contemporary writers on the topic, cosmopolitanism refers to a visi...