The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid HighwayThe Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway is a new study of the films of this most prominent of German directors, and penetrates the seductive sounds and images for which he is best known. The book analyses the individual films in the context of a preoccupation central to all of Wenders' work and writings: why modern cinema - a recording art, solely composed of sounds and images - naturally developed into a primarily narrative medium, a domain traditionally associated with words and sentences? With its emphasis on analysing the films themselves, this book identifies and critically elucidates Wenders' chief artistic motivation: that the act of seeing can constitute a creative act in its own right. |
Contents
Central themes | 13 |
The inflation and reproduction of images | 27 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Until the End of the World | 30 |
NYC 1982 | 33 |
Narrative as structure | 41 |
The State of Things | 42 |
The State of Things | 43 |
Understatement of dramatic highlights | 54 |
Paris Texas | 97 |
Paris Texas | 99 |
Tokyo Ga | 105 |
Tokyo Ga | 107 |
Tokyo Ga | 110 |
Tokyo Ga | 111 |
Wings of Desire | 117 |
Wings of Desire | 122 |
Kings of the Road | 65 |
Alice in the Cities | 72 |
Alice in the Cities | 73 |
Alice in the Cities | 80 |
Alice in the Cities | 86 |
Alice in the Cities | 90 |
Alice in the Cities | 91 |
Paris Texas | 92 |
Paris Texas | 95 |
The Million Dollar Hotel | 131 |
The Million Dollar Hotel | 134 |
The Million Dollar Hotel | 137 |
The Million Dollar Hotel | 138 |
Lisbon Story | 145 |
Lisbon Story | 147 |
Conclusion | 151 |
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