A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film,
employing archival research to bring out new insights into its
making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin,
Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a
fascinating time capsule of that late Cold War moment. Together
with legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan(who had worked
on Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la BĂȘte of 1946, among many other
films) and Austrian author Peter Handke (with whom he had
collaborated before), Wenders created a multilayered filmic poem of
dazzling complexity: the skies over Berlin are populated with
angels bearing witness to its inhabitants' everyday concerns. One
falls in love with a beautiful young woman, a trapeze artist in a
traveling circus, and decides to forfeit his immortality. Wenders's
groundbreaking film has been hailed as a paean to love, a
rumination on the continued presence in Berlin of the troubled
German history, as well as an homage to the life-affirming power of
the cinematic imagination.Christian Rogowski guides the reader
through the film's many aspects, using archival research to bring
out new insights into its making and its meanings. Christian
Rogowski is G. Armour Craig Professor in Language andLiterature in
the Department of German at Amherst College.
General
Imprint: |
Camden House
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Camden House German Film Classics |
Release date: |
July 2019 |
First published: |
2019 |
Authors: |
Christian Rogowski
(Customer)
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Dimensions: |
191 x 133 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
96 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64014-037-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
1-64014-037-9 |
Barcode: |
9781640140370 |
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