Alexander Kluge : : Raw Materials for the Imagination / / ed. by Tara Forrest.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid,; Eder, Klaus,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Flinn, Caryl,; Forrest, Tara,; Grünewald, Tim,; Hansen, Miriam,; Hopf, Florian,; Huyssen, Andreas,; Kaes, Anton,; Kluge, Alexander,; Koch, Gertrud,; Mills, Jeff,; Müller, Heiner,; Roberts, David,; Schiesser, Giaco,; Schlüpmann, Heide,; Schulte, Christian,; Vogl, Joseph,; Wenzel, Eike Friedrich,
• HerausgeberIn: Forrest, Tara,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.) :; 10 halftones

Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema movement, but his work has spanned a number of genres and media. This wide-ranging book assembles a diverse selection of texts, from nonfiction writings and short stories by Kluge, to critical essays by renowned international scholars on Kluge’s work, to transcripts of interviews with the artist himself. A valuable collection for students and scholars in the fields of film, television, and media studies, Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination is a perfect introduction to Kluge’s key themes and ideas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Editor’s Introduction -- The Stubborn Persistence of Alexander Kluge -- Film, Politics and the Public Sphere -- On Film and the Public Sphere -- Cooperative Auteur Cinema and Oppositional Public Sphere: Alexander Kluge’s Contribution to Germany in Autumn -- ‘What is Different is Good’: Women and Femininity in the Films of Alexander Kluge -- Rethinking History -- In Search of Germany: Alexander Kluge’s The Patriot -- Alexander Kluge and German History: ‘The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8.4.1945’ -- The Air Raid on Halberstadt, 8 April 1945 (extract) -- Realism as Protest -- Construction Site Film: Kluge’s Idea of Realism and His Short Films -- The Sharpest Ideology: That Reality Appeals to its Realistic Character -- Debate on the Documentary Film: Conversation with Klaus Eder, 1980 -- Opera as a ‘Power Plant of Emotion’ -- Undoing Act 5: History, Bodies and Operatic Remains in The Power of Emotion -- ‘Feelings Can Move Mountains …’: An Interview with Alexander Kluge on the Film The Power of Feelings -- Alexander Kluge’s Phantom of the Opera -- Storytelling and Politics -- An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time -- The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings -- At the 2003 International Security Conference -- Television and Counter-Public Spheres -- Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge’s Work for Television -- Television and Obstinacy -- Reframing Islam in Television: Alexander Kluge’s Interviews on Islamand Terrorism since 9/II -- In the Real Time of Feelings: Interview with Alexander Kluge -- Television Interviews -- Character Armour and MobileWarfare -- Jeff Mills: Godfather of Techno -- Tsunami of Emotion: On Puccini’s Tosca -- Early Cinema/Recent Work -- Reinventing the Nickelodeon: Notes on Kluge and Early Cinema -- ‘All Things Are Enchanted Human Beings’: Remarks on Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity -- Selected Bibliography of English-Language Texts -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index