{"product_id":"9780809389391","title":"Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the \"Movie-Appropriate\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the “Movie-Appropriate”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eexamines the work of major postwar German\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edirector Volker Schlöndorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film, twenty-eight chapter study, Hans-Bernhard Moeller \u0026amp; George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eambitiousness of Schlöndorff that is comparable to that found in Wenders, Herzog, and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFassbinder. In spite of Schlöndorff’s successes with films like\u003ci\u003e The Lost Honor of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatharina Blum \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with\u003ci\u003e Death of a Salesman, Gathering of Old Men \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, this is the first in-depth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecritical study of the filmmaker’s career\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn the context of film and television history, this book relates Schlöndorff’s oeuvre to the New German Cinema, to his formative years as a student and production assistant in France, and to his roots in the Weimar cinema’s tradition. It reveals how Schlöndorff entered into the German film production system in the 1960s, how he came to rely on German public television in the 1970s, and then moved to the international and American financing in the 1980s, attempting to redevelop the Babelsberg studios in a 1990s post-Wall Germany while continuing to make his own films into the 21st century. The book captures how Schlöndorff’s nearly half century of ongoing creativity and productivity ties together. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe authors analyze the artistry of each Schlöndorff movie arguing that his output as a whole embodies a provocative and sometimes contradictory set of balances. Schlöndorff combines commercial interest with significant artistic ambition, blends the kinesthetic 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 the international audiences. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe authors demonstrate the cyclical recurrence in his cinema of certain themes (individual and collective rebellion, fascist suppression, masochistic love), narrative patterns (the Western, the thriller, the subjective mood piece), and stylistic approaches (Brechtian Verfremdung, the creation of careful leitmotif structures, the use of the grotesque). In over thirty years of filmmaking, Schlöndorff has produced a remarkable unified body of work that deserves the attention of a book-length study. Authors Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis offer the first such study of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the “Movie-Appropriate” \u003c\/i\u003efeatures forty-one illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118509670640,"sku":"9780809389391","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809389391_p0.jpg?v=1763728533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809389391","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}