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Résumé :
Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography. In addition to offering new insights into his cult masterpieces, the 10 essays in this volume highlight the thematic and aesthetic continuities between his early films and his latest productions. Wenders's films have much to contribute to current conversations on intermediality, whether it be through his adaptations of important literary works or his filmic reinventions of famous paintings by Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth. Wenders has also positioned himself as a decidedly transnational and translingual filmmaker taking on the challenge of representing peripheral spaces without falling into the trap of a neo-colonial gaze. Making Films That Matterargues that Wenders remains a true innovator in both his experiments in 3D filmmaking and his attempts to define a visual poetics of peace....

Biographie:

Introduction: New Perspectives on Wim Wenders as Filmmaker and Visual Artist (Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, University of Richmond, USA)

Watching the Road Trilogy in the Twenty-First Century
1. Search for the Sublime: The Road Trilogy, or Wenders's Roam-man-ticism (Oliver Speck, Viginia Commonwealth University, USA)
2. Writing in the Blood of the Past: Wrong Move and the Search for a Contemporary German Identity (Kristin Eichhorn,Universit?t Paderborn, Germany)
3. The Window-View and the Romantic Vision of the World: Notes on a Visual Leitmotif in the Films of Wim Wenders (Philipp Scheid, Universit?t Bonn, Germany)

Reimagining Cinema and Photography with Wenders
4. As If It Were For The Last Time: Wim Wenders-Film and Photography (George Kouvaros, University of New South Wales, Australia)
5. Wenders-Salgado: Space, Time and Transformation in Salt of the Earth (Darrell Varga, York University, Canada)
6. Wim Wenders's Pina, a Cinematic Homage to Pina Bausch (Peter Beicken, University of Maryland, USA)

Transnational Wenders
7. Multitrack and Transcultural Narratives in Wim Wenders's Works (Simone Malaguti, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany)
8. I Can Imagine Anything: The European Project in Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire (Mine Eren, Randolph-Macon College, USA)
9. Blandness and Just Seeing in the Films of Wim Wenders (William Baker, Ohio State University, USA)
10. The Heart of Things: Wim Wenders and the Evocations of Peace (Mary Zournazi, University of New South Wales, Australia)

Appendix
Bibliography
Filmography
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index