Format:
XVI, 207 S. :
,
Ill.
ISBN:
978-0-8166-5330-0
,
978-0-8166-5331-7
Content:
This book is a brilliantly unconventional investigation into the career of a visionary German filmmaker and the untimely death of art cinema. Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a substantial body of films that explore a world of difference defined by the tension and transfer between settled and nomadic ways of life. In many of her films, including Exile Shanghai, an experimental documentary about the Jews of Shanghai, and Joan of Arc of Mongolia, in which passengers on the Trans-Siberian Express are abducted by Mongolian bandits, she also probes the encounter with the other, whether exotic or simply unpredictable. In Ulrike Ottinger Laurence A. Rickels offers a series of sensitive and original analyses of Ottinger's films, as well as her more recent photographic artworks, situated within a dazzling thought experiment centered on the history of art cinema through the turn of the twenty-first century. In addition to commemorating the death of a once-vital art form, this book also affirms Ottinger's defiantly optimistic turn toward the documentary film as a means of mediating present clashes between tradition and modernity, between the local and the global.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
1942- Ottinger, Ulrike
;
Film
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
Author information:
Rickels, Laurence A. 1954-
