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Wim Wenders : making films that matter / edited by Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel.

Contributor(s): Delers, Olivier 1977- [editor.] | Sulzer-Reichel, Martin 1962- [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc , 2021Description: vi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781501356339.Subject(s): Wenders, Wim -- Criticism and interpretation | -- Filmmaking | -- Film | -- History of FilmDDC classification: 791.430
Contents:
Introduction: New perspectives on Wim Wenders as filmmaker and visual artist / Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel -- Search for the sublime : the road trilogy, or Wenders's Roam-man-ticism / Oliver Speck -- Writing in the blood of the past : Wrong move and the search for a contemporary German identity / Kristin Eichhorn -- The window-view and the romantic vision of the world : notes on a visual leitmotif in the films of Wim Wenders / Philipp Scheid -- As if it were for the last time : Wim Wenders-film and photography / George Kouvaros -- Wenders--Salgado : space, time and transformation in Salt of the earth / Darrell Varga -- Wim Wenders's Pina, a cinematic homage to Pina Bausch / Peter Beicken -- Multitrack and transcultural narratives in Wim Wenders's works / Simone Malaguti -- "I can imagine anything" : the European project in Wim Wenders's Wings of desire / Mine Eren -- Blandness and "just seeing" in the films of Wim Wenders / William Baker -- The heart of things : Wim Wenders and the evocations of peace / Mary Zournazi.
Summary: "Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in fifteen years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography. In addition to offering new insights into his cult masterpieces, the ten essays in this volume highlight the thematic and aesthetic continuities between his early films and his latest productions. Wenders's films have much to contribute to current conversations on intermediality, whether it be through his adaptations of important literary works or his filmic reinventions of famous paintings by Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth. Wenders has also positioned himself as a decidedly transnational and translingual filmmaker taking on the challenge of representing peripheral spaces without falling into the trap of a neo-colonial gaze. Making Films That Matter argues that Wenders remains a true innovator in both his experiments in 3D filmmaking and his attempts to define a visual poetics of peace"--
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791.430 2021 (Browse shelf) Available Ordered for Matthias Hurst

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.

Includes filmography (pages 191-192).

Introduction: New perspectives on Wim Wenders as filmmaker and visual artist / Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel -- Search for the sublime : the road trilogy, or Wenders's Roam-man-ticism / Oliver Speck -- Writing in the blood of the past : Wrong move and the search for a contemporary German identity / Kristin Eichhorn -- The window-view and the romantic vision of the world : notes on a visual leitmotif in the films of Wim Wenders / Philipp Scheid -- As if it were for the last time : Wim Wenders-film and photography / George Kouvaros -- Wenders--Salgado : space, time and transformation in Salt of the earth / Darrell Varga -- Wim Wenders's Pina, a cinematic homage to Pina Bausch / Peter Beicken -- Multitrack and transcultural narratives in Wim Wenders's works / Simone Malaguti -- "I can imagine anything" : the European project in Wim Wenders's Wings of desire / Mine Eren -- Blandness and "just seeing" in the films of Wim Wenders / William Baker -- The heart of things : Wim Wenders and the evocations of peace / Mary Zournazi.

"Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in fifteen years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography. In addition to offering new insights into his cult masterpieces, the ten essays in this volume highlight the thematic and aesthetic continuities between his early films and his latest productions. Wenders's films have much to contribute to current conversations on intermediality, whether it be through his adaptations of important literary works or his filmic reinventions of famous paintings by Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth. Wenders has also positioned himself as a decidedly transnational and translingual filmmaker taking on the challenge of representing peripheral spaces without falling into the trap of a neo-colonial gaze. Making Films That Matter argues that Wenders remains a true innovator in both his experiments in 3D filmmaking and his attempts to define a visual poetics of peace"--

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