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Alexander Kluge : raw materials for the imagination / edited by Tara Forrest.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.K598 A68 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film culture in transition
- Film Culture in Transition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kluge, Alexander, 1932-2026--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kluge, Alexander.
- Kluge, Alexander, 1932-.
- Motion pictures--Germany.
- Motion pictures.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 440 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer. This book - the first of its kind in English - comprises a wide selection of texts, including articles and stories by Kluge, television transcripts, critical essays by renowned international scholars, and interviews with Kluge himself. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in the fields of film, television, and literary studies, as well as those interested in exploring the intersections between art, politics, and social change. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Film, Politics and the Public Sphere
- On Film and the Public Sphere / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander 33
- Cooperative Auteur Cinema and Oppositional Public Sphere: Alexander Kluge's Contribution to Germany in Autumn / Miriam Hansen Hansen, Miriam 50
- 'What is Different is Good': Women and Femininity in the Films of Alexander Kluge / Heide Schlüpmann Schlüpmann, Heide 72
- Rethinking History
- In Search of Germany: Alexander Kluge's The Patriot / Anton Kaes Kaes, Anton 95
- Alexander Kluge and German History: 'The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8.4.1945' / David Roberts Roberts, David 127
- The Air Raid on Halberstadt, 8 April 1945 (extract) / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander 155
- Realism as Protest
- Construction Site Film: Kluge's Idea of Realism and His Short Films / Eike Friedrich Wenzel Wenzel, Eike Friedrich 173
- The Sharpest Ideology: That Reality Appeals to its Realistic Character / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander 191
- Debate on the Documentary Film: Conversation with Klaus Eder, 1980 / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander, Klaus Eder Eder, Klaus 197
- Opera as a 'Power Plant of Emotion'
- Undoing Act 5: History, Bodies and Operatic Remains in the Power of Emotion / Caryl Flinn Flinn, Caryl 211
- 'Feelings Can Move Mountains...': An Interview with Alexander Kluge on the Film The Power of Feelings / Florian Hopf Hopf, Florian 241
- Alexander Kluge's Phanton of the Opera / Gertrud Koch Koch, Gertrud 247
- Storytelling and Politics
- An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time / Andreas Huyssen Huyssen, Andreas 271
- The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander 283
- At the 2003 International Security Conference / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander 291
- Television and Counter-Public Spheres
- Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge's Work for Television / Tara Forrest Forrest, Tara 305
- Television and Obstinacy / Christian Schulte Schulte, Christian 318
- Reframing Islam in Television: Alexander Kluge's Interviews on Islam and Terrorism since 9/11 / Tim Grünewald Grünewald, Tim 331
- In the Real Time of Feelings: Interview with Alexander Kluge / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid, Giaco Schiesser Schiesser, Giaco 352
- Television Interviews
- Character Armour and Mobile Warfare / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander, Heiner Müller Müller, Heiner 365
- Jeff Mills: Godfather of Techno / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander, Jeff Mills Mills, Jeff 369
- Tsunami of Emotion: On Puccini's Tosca / Alexander Kluge Kluge, Alexander, Joseph Vogl Vogl, Joseph 378
- Early Cinema/Recent Work
- Reinventing the Nickelodeon: Notes on Kluge and Early Cinema / Miriam Hansen Hansen, Miriam 389
- 'All Things are Enchanted Human Beings': Remarks on Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity / Christian Schulte Schulte, Christian 409.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-421) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789089642738
- 9089642730
- 9789089642721
- 9089642722
- 9789048513390
- 9048513391
- OCLC:
- 789662403
- Publisher Number:
- 99947807492
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