FFIILLMM CCUULLTTUURREE IN TRANSITION Alexander Kluge Raw Materials for the Imagination EDITED BY TARA FORREST Amsterdam University Press AlexanderKluge Alexander Kluge Raw Materials for the Imagination Edited by Tara Forrest Frontcoverillustration:AlexanderKluge.Photo:ReginaSchmeken Backcoverillustration:ArtistsundertheBigTop:Perplexed() Coverdesign:KokKorpershoek,Amsterdam Lay-out:japes,Amsterdam isbn (paperback) isbn (hardcover) e-isbn nur ©T.Forrest/AmsterdamUniversityPress, Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove, nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrieval system,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans(electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise)withoutthewrittenpermissionofboth thecopyrightownerandtheauthorofthebook. Everyefforthasbeenmadetoobtainpermissiontouseallcopyrightedillustra- tionsreproducedinthisbook.Nonetheless,whosoeverbelievestohaverights tothismaterialisadvisedtocontactthepublisher. ForAlexanderKluge …andinmemoryofMiriamHansen Table of Contents Introduction Editor’sIntroduction TaraForrest TheStubbornPersistence of AlexanderKluge ThomasElsaesser Film, Politics and the Public Sphere OnFilmand the Public Sphere AlexanderKluge Cooperative AuteurCinemaand Oppositional Public Sphere: Alexander Kluge’s Contribution toGI A MiriamHansen ‘What is Differentis Good’:Women and Femininity inthe Films ofAlexanderKluge HeideSchlüpmann Rethinking History InSearch ofGermany: Alexander Kluge’sT P AntonKaes Alexander Kluge andGerman History: ‘The Air Raidon Halberstadton8.4.1945’ DavidRoberts TheAir RaidonHalberstadt,8April 1945(extract) AlexanderKluge Realism as Protest ConstructionSite Film: Kluge’sIdeaofRealismand HisShort Films EikeFriedrichWenzel 8 AlexanderKluge TheSharpest Ideology: ThatRealityAppealstoitsRealistic Character AlexanderKluge Debate on the Documentary Film:ConversationwithKlaus Eder,1980 AlexanderKlugeandKlausEder Opera as a ‘Power Plant of Emotion’ Undoing Act5: History, Bodiesand Operatic Remainsin T P E CarylFlinn ‘FeelingsCan MoveMountains…’:AnInterviewwithAlexander Klugeon theFilm TP F FlorianHopf Alexander Kluge’s Phantomof the Opera GertrudKoch Storytelling and Politics AnAnalytic StorytellerintheCourseofTime AndreasHuyssen The Political as Intensityof Everyday Feelings AlexanderKluge Atthe 2003 InternationalSecurity Conference AlexanderKluge Television and Counter-Public Spheres Raw Materialsfor the Imagination:Kluge’s Work for Television TaraForrest Television and Obstinacy ChristianSchulte Reframing Islam in Television:Alexander Kluge’sInterviewson IslamandTerrorism since 9/11 TimGrünewald IntheReal TimeofFeelings:InterviewwithAlexanderKluge AstridDeuber-MankowskyandGiacoSchiesser TableofContents 9 Television Interviews Character Armourand Mobile Warfare AlexanderKlugeandHeinerMüller JeffMills:GodfatherofTechno AlexanderKlugeandJeffMills TsunamiofEmotion:OnPuccini’sTosca AlexanderKlugeandJosephVogl Early Cinema/Recent Work Reinventingthe Nickelodeon: Noteson Klugeand Early Cinema MiriamHansen ‘All Things Are Enchanted Human Beings’:Remarks on Alexander Kluge’sN I A ChristianSchulte SelectedBibliographyofEnglish-Language Texts Acknowledgments Notes onContributors Index
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