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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971179303321

Autore

Moeller Hans-Bernhard

Titolo

Volker Schlondorff's cinema : adaptation, politics, and the "movie-appropriate" / / Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002

ISBN

9786613901309

0-585-46459-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LellisGeorge

Disciplina

791.43/0233/092

791.430233092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - Germany

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. 340-356) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Historical Importance of Schlöndo; 2. Schlöndorff and His Sources; Part One: The Early Schlondorff: Suppression, Pop, and Protest; 3. Young Törless; 4. A Degree of Murder and "An Uneasy Moment"; 5. Michael Kohlhaas; Part Two: Brechtian and Profeminist Schlondorff; 6. "Amphibious" Movies and Formal Experiments; 7. Baal; 8. The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach; 9. The Morals of Ruth Halbfass and Overnight Stay in Tyrol; 10. A Free Woman; 11. Georgina's Reasons

12. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum13. Coup de Grâce; Part Three: The International Schlondorff; 14. A GermanConsciousness for an International Audience; 15. The Tin Drum; 16. Just for Fun, Just for Play-Kaleidoscope Valeska Gert, The Candidate, and War and Peace; 17. Circle of Deceit; 18. Swann in Love; Part Four: The American Schlondorff; 19. A German Filmmaker in the United States; 20. Death of a Salesman; 21. A Gathering of Old Men; 22. The Handmaid's Tale; Part Five: The Post-Wall Schlondorff; 23. A Filmmaker for the European Community; 24. Voyager; 25. The Ogre

26. Billy, How Did You Do It? and Palmetto27. The Legend of Rita and "The Perfect Soldier"; 28. Conclusion; Filmography; Appendix: U.S. Film, DVD, and Video Sources; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; Author Biographies; Back Cover



Sommario/riassunto

Volker Schlöndorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the "Movie-Appropriate" examines the work of major postwar German director Volker Schlöndorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film, twenty-eight chapter study, Hans-Bernhard Moeller & George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal ambitiousness of Schlöndorff that is comparable to that found in Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder. In spite of Schlöndorff's successes with films like The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum and The