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Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the Movie-appropriate
Author(s): Hans-Bernhard Moeller (Author), George Lellis (Author)
- Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication Date: 31 Aug. 2002
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 0809324512
- ISBN-13: 9780809324514
Book Description
A study of 28 films by the major postwar German director, Volker Schlondorff, examining them in historical, economic and artistic contexts. The authors seek to reveal a complexity and formal ambitiousness of Schlondorff that is comparable to that found in Wenders, Herzog and Fassbinder. The work demonstrates how Schlondorff: combines commercial interest with significant artistic ambition; blends the kinaesthetic pleasures of moving images with the seriousness of fine literature; links the intensity of individualized personal experience to an awareness of broader political issues; and represents a specifically German sensibility even as he reaches out to international audiences.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Volker Schlondorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the ‘Movie-Appropriate’ is the first comprehensive treatment in English of a major postwar German filmmaker. The volume gains authority from the expansive knowledge it introduces about Schlondorff’s works and from the secondary literature it draws on to evaluate them. It also succeeds in framing the individual films in historical contexts and (Inter)national cinematic traditions. – Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
About the Author
Hans-Bernhard Moeller is a professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches a range of courses on the German cinema as well as courses in German literature and comparative literature. He is the editor of Latin America and the Literature of Exile: A Comparative View of the Twentieth-Century Refugee Writers in the New World. George Lellis is a professor of communication and the chair of the Department of Business Administration at Coker College. He is author of Bertolt Brecht, Cahiers du Cinema and Contemporary Film Theory.
