Land of plenty wim wenders biography
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Wim Wenders - LAST MODIFIED: 23 September
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- LAST MODIFIED: 23 September
- DOI: /obo/
Brady, Martin, and Joanne Leal. Wim Wenders and Peter Handke: Collaboration, Adaptation, Recomposition. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi,
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Offers in-depth analyses of films on which Wenders and Handke worked together: The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Wings of Desire. The authors highlight different modes of collaboration and adaptational strategies. They reflect on what structures the relationship between two of the most important creative minds of their generation. The book puts forward the idea that adaptation can be a non-hierarchical form of collaboration.
Buchka, Peter. Augen kann man nicht kaufen: Wim Wenders und seine Filme. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag,
Engages with the themes and styles of Wenders’s films up to The State of Things. Identifies visual motifs that appear in several films a
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Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders (b. ) is a film director, writer, and photographer. He is a professor of film at The European Graduate School / EGS and Professor für Narrativen Film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Wenders is considered one of the most important figures to have emerged from the “New German Cinema” in the s and was a founding member of the German film distribution company “Filmverlag der Autoren”. In , he established his own production company in Berlin, “Road Movies,” which has produced many of his films, as well as numerous films by Ken Loach. Wenders received the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in for his movie Paris, Texas, the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The State of Things, and won best director at the Cannes Film Festival for Wings of Desire. He has also been nominated three times for the Academy Awards for his films Buena Vista Social Club (), Pina (), and, most recently, The Salt of the Earth ().
Born in Düssel
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Wim Wenders' "Land of Plenty". A love-hate relationship with the USA
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)
- Introduction
- Wenders' Early Work and "America"
- Wenders' Reception in Germany and the US
- Wenders' Critique of the United States
- Land of Plenty
Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)
This text aims to analyze Wim Wenders' complex relationship with the United States, tracing his evolving critique from early fascination to later political engagement, culminating in a discussion of his film "Land of Plenty." The analysis explores Wenders' career, reception, and cinematic representations of America.
- Wenders' evolving perception of America
- The influence of American cinema and culture on Wenders' work
- Wenders' role as an "author-director" and his reception in Germany and the US
- The political dimensions of Wenders' critique of the United States
- The thematic and stylistic elements of "Land of Plenty"