Literature

The cinema of WIM WENDERS

Management No. BKM011212

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Contents: CONTENTS List of Iliu,srations = vii Acknowledgements = ix Introduction = 1 Wenders and the New German Cinema = 6 Central themes = 13 CHAPTER ONE On the Production of Images = 19 The camera never lies: image and reality = 19 Rescuing physical reality = 22 The film image as illusion of reality = 25 The inflation and reproduction of images = 27 Television and the commercialisation of images = 27 Cinema mmy in television = 32 CHAPTER TWO On the Construction of Narratives = 37 Incompatibility of images and narrative = 37 Narrative as structure = 41 Story as ' vampire' = 46 Road movies and episodic narrative structure = 48 Understatcissent of dramatic highlights = 54 Temporal dilation in the filmic story = 56 Wenders' aesthetic of creative perception = 64 CHAPTER THREE Alice in the Cities = 72 Paris, Texas = 92 Tokyo Ga = 105 Wings of Desire = 112 The Million Dollar Hotel = 131 Lisbon Story = 139 Conclusion = 151 Notes = 159 Filmography = 167 Bibliography = 173 Index = 177