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Alexander Kluge is vooral bekend als een van de oprichters van de Nieuwe Duitse Cinema. In de afgelopen vijftig jaar was hij naast filmmaker ook schrijver en tv-producent. Dit boek biedt de lezer een uitgebreide inleiding tot de belangrijkste thema's, problemen en ideeën uit Kluges baanbrekende films, televisie- en literaire producties. Het brede o
List of contents
Alexander Kluge - 2 Table of Contents - 8 Introduction - 12 Editor's Introduction - 14 The Stubborn Persistence of Alexander Kluge - 23 Film, Politics and the Public Sphere - 32 On Film and the Public Sphere - 34 Cooperative Auteur Cinema and Oppositional Public Sphere: Alexander Kluge's Contribution to Germany in Autumn - 51 'What is Different is Good': Women and Femininity in the Films of Alexander Kluge - 73 Rethinking History - 94 In Search of Germany: Alexander Kluge's The Patriot - 96 Alexander Kluge and German History: 'The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8.4.1945' - 128 The Air Raid on Halberstadt, 8 April 1945(extract) - 156 Realism as Protest - 172 Construction Site Film: Kluge's Idea of Realism and His Short Films - 174 The Sharpest Ideology: That Reality Appeals to its Realistic Character - 192 Debate on the Documentary Film: Conversation with Klaus Eder, 1980 - 198 Opera as a 'Power Plant of Emotion' - 210 Undoing Act 5: History, Bodies and Operatic Remains in The Power of Emotion - 212 'Feelings Can Move Mountains ...': AnInterview with Alexander Kluge on the Film The Power of Feelings - 242 Alexander Kluge's Phantom of the Opera - 248 Storytelling and Politics - 270 An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time - 272 The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings - 284 At the 2003 International Security Conference - 292 Television and Counter-Public Spheres - 304 Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge'sWork for Television - 306 Television and Obstinacy - 319 Reframing Islam in Television: Alexander Kluge's Interviews on Islamand Terrorism since 9/11 - 332 In the Real Time of Feelings: Interview with Alexander Kluge - 353 Television Interviews - 364 Character Armour and MobileWarfare - 366 Jeff Mills: Godfather of Techno - 370 Tsunami of Emotion: On Puccini's Tosca - 379 Early Cinema/RecentWork - 388 Reinventing the Nickelodeon: Notes on Kluge and Early Cinema - 390 'All Things Are Enchanted Human Beings': Remarks on Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity - 410 Selected Bibliography of English-Language Texts - 418 Acknowledgments - 423 Notes on Contributors - 426 Index of Names - 431 Index ofWorks - 434
About the author
Tara Forrest is senior lecturer in screen and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
