Straight through the heart : Doris Dörrie, German filmmaker and author / edited by Franz A. Birgel and Klaus Phillips ; associate editor, Christian-Albrecht Gollub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birgel, Franz, 1949-

Phillips, Klaus.

Gollub, Christian-Albrecht.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dörrie, Doris, 1955---Criticism and interpretation.

Dörrie, Doris.

Dörrie, Doris, 1955-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Summary:

This collection of articles is the first comprehensive introduction to the work of the multi-talented Doris Dsrrie, Germany's most successful female filmmaker and best-selling author.

Contents:

1. A conversation with Doris Dörrie / Klaus Phillips

2. Beyond screwball comedy: Doris Dörrie's Straight through the heart / Donna L. Hoffmeister

3. In the belly of the whale: "Rosebud" redux / Klaus Phillips

4. Doris Dörrie's Men: bridging the gap between 1968 and 1985? / Jennifer Taylor

5. Love and sexuality in Men / Vibeke R. Petersen

6. "I want to take you on my banana boat": a queer reading of Doris Dörrie's Men / Susan Kassouf

7. Melodrama and ambivalence, or Where is "the strong woman" in Doris Dörrie's Paradise? / Sheila Johnson

8. Me and him and the "serial seducer" genre / George Lellis

9. Why Americans didn't laugh: comedic structure in Me and him / Robert C. Reimer

10. Text and genre context in Doris Dörrie's Money / Hans-Bernhard Moeller

11. Happy Birthday!, or, Is a private eye a type of family doctor? / Franz A. Birgel

12. A carnival of humans: multicultural spaces and space aliens in Doris Dörrie's Nobody loves me / Mareike Herrmann

13. Angst takes a holiday in Doris Dörrie's Am I beautiful? / Margaret McCarthy

14. Removing the mask: Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment guaranteed / Robert C. Reimer

15. Naked: is there a fundamental identity, which we adorn or is it all tentative? / Dairyu Michael Wenger

16. Reflecting love at quite its natural size: Doris Dörrie as writer / Richard Utz

17. Doris Dör̲rie: the filmmaker as writer / Thomas R. Nadar

18. What children know: the child's imagination in Doris Dörrie's picture books / Julie Pfeiffer

19. Original script for Nobody loves me / Doris Dörrie.

Notes:

Filmography: pages 289-293.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-305) and index.

ISBN:

081084978X

OCLC:

52948898