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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782849503321

Autore

Rickels Laurence A

Titolo

Ulrike Ottinger [[electronic resource] ] : the autobiography of art cinema / / Laurence A. Rickels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5642-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

791.43023/3092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207).

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: ART/CINEMA, ART/JOURNALISM; 1. BOUNCING BIO; 2. SATANIC ARTS; 3. BETWEEN MEDIA; 4. HIT AND MISS; 5. OPERATION ART; 6. THE ART OF EVERYDAY LIFE; 7. JOHANNA'S ARK;  OR, DOCUMENTARY FILM'S COVENANT WITH ART CINEMA; 8. REAL TIME TRAVEL; 9. I WAS THERE; 10. CURTAINS; 11. MY LAST INTERVIEW WITH ULRIKE OTTINGER; 12. TOTEM TABOO; 13. GOING APE; WORKS CITED

Sommario/riassunto

Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a substantial body of films that explore a world of difference defined by the tension and transfer between settled and nomadic ways of life. In many of her films, including Exile Shanghai, an experimental documentary about the Jews of Shanghai, and Joan of Arc of Mongolia, in which passengers on the Trans-Siberian Express are abducted by Mongolian bandits, she also probes the encounter with the other, whether exotic or simply unpredictable. In Ulrike Ottinger Laurence A. Rickels offers a series of sensitive and original analyses of Ottin