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When Lola strides onto the stage—of theater, cinema, history, and our consciousness—she does so with a song and dance. Starting with Lola Montez, Lola’s existence is wrapped up with the stage, defined by the dance, captured in a song. That scene—first elaborately orchestrated by Josef von Sternberg where Lola Lola begins to sing about herself and her body expresses her claim to pleasure and its coincidence with her cinematic identity— is repeated in brilliant variation throughout the Lola corpus. When all is said and done, Lola’s song and dance is her signature moment.
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Richter, S. (2013). Lola’s Song and Dance. In: Women, Pleasure, Film. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137309730_4
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