Marlene Dietrich: A Look at Her Film Career [11min]

Sporting a tuxedo and top hat Marlene Dietrich made her first film appearance in Hollywood -- an image that's endured for nearly 80 years. A new book looking at Dietrich's films argues that she's been misunderstood and her work denigrated or dismissed, often by feminists. Jenni Murray talks with the author Dr Catherine Constable, Senior Lecturer in Film at Sheffield Hallam University and author of Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich (BFI).