Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the "Movie-Appropriate"

Volker Schlöndorffs Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the "Movie-Appropriate" examines the work of director Volker Schlöndorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film, twenty-eight-chapter study, Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal ambition in Schlöndorffs films that is comparable to that found in the work of Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder. In spite of Schlöndorffs successes with films like The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum and The Tin Drum, as well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with Death of a Salesman, Gathering of Old Men, and The Handmaid's Tale, this is the first in-depth critical study of the filmmaker's career.

Hans-Bernhard Moeller is a professor emeritus in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of "Literatur zur Zeit des Faschismus," in Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, edited by Ehrhard Bahr, and of many essays contributed to journals such as Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Jump Cut, and Wide Angle. He is also the editor of Latin America and the Literature of Exile: A Comparative View of the Twentieth-Century Refugee Writers in the New World.