Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the "Movie-Appropriate"

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FILM STUDIES “Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the ‘MovieAppropriate ’ is the first comprehensive treatment in English of this major postwar German filmmaker. The chronological presentation of all his films is nuanced, well informed, and especially useful in situating his body of work within German, European, and international filmmaking trends of the past thirty-five years. Moeller and Lellis have produced an indispensable general introduction for all those who wish to become acquainted with this important director.” —Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin–Madison Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the “Movie-Appropriate” examines the work of director Volker Schlöndorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film, twenty-eight-chapter study, Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal ambition in Schlöndorff’s films that is comparable to that found in the work of Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder. In spite of Schlöndorff’s successes with films like The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum and The Tin Drum, as well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with Death of a Salesman, Gathering of Old Men, and The Handmaid’s Tale, this is the first in-depth critical study of the filmmaker’s career. Hans-Bernhard Moeller is a professor emeritus in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “Literatur zur Zeit des Faschismus,” in Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, edited by Ehrhard Bahr, and of many essays contributed to journals such as Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Jump Cut, and Wide Angle. He is also the editor of Latin America and the Literature of Exile: A Comparative View of the Twentieth-Century Refugee Writers in the New World. George Lellis is a professor of communication at Coker College. He is the author of Bertolt Brecht, Cahiers du Cinéma, and Contemporary Film Theory. southern illinois university press 1915 university press drive mail code 6806 carbondale, il 62901 www.siupress.com Printed in the United States of America Cover illustration: Bibiana Beglau in The Legend of Rita. Courtesy of Kino International. $30.00 usd isbn 0-8093-3200-0 isbn 978-0-8093-3200-7 ...