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

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 internationa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.) :; 10 halftones
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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