Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
©2012

Description:

1 online resource (439 pages)

Series:

Film Culture in Transition

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alexander Kluge; 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 ProtestConstruction 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 ... ': AnInterview 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 FeelingsAt the 2003 International Security Conference; Television and Counter-Public Spheres; Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge'sWork for Television; Television and Obstinacy; Reframing Islam in Television: Alexander Kluge's Interviews on Islamand Terrorism since 9/11; 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/RecentWork; Reinventing the Nickelodeon: Notes on Kluge and Early Cinema.
'All Things Are Enchanted Human Beings': Remarks on Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological AntiquitySelected Bibliography of English-Language Texts; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names; Index ofWorks.
English.

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 Englishlish - 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 in.

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ProQuest Ebook Central
MyiLibrary, Table of contents
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Cambridge University Press
Full text available: 2012.
Available in Books at JSTOR: Open Access.
Full text available: 2011.
Available in OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks).

ISBN:

9789048513390
9048513391
9789089642721
9089642722
1280118210
9781280118210
9789089642738
9089642730

Subject:

Kluge, Alexander 1932-
Bibel Philemonbrief
Motion pictures.
Science (General)
Cinéma.
The arts.
Film, TV and radio.
Films, cinema.
Individual film directors, film-makers.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video General.
PERFORMING ARTS Reference.
Multi-User.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Host item:

Books at JSTOR: Open Access
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

Added entries:

Forrest, Tara, editor.
Film culture in transition.