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Cinema Stories

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ISBN-10: 0811217353

ISBN-13: 9780811217354

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alexander Kluge, Tim Brady, Helen Hughes

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Alexander Kluge turns 75 in autumn 2007, and to celebrate he will be the Special Guest of Honor at the 75th Venice Film Festival, showing his films in the Grand Salon; he will enjoy a MoMA retrospective; Facets Multimedia will launch DVDs of all his dozens of movies and all his TV work and New Directions is proud to present his new fiction collection, all about the cinema. The thirty-eight tales ofCinema Storiescombine fact and fiction, and they all revolve around movie-making. The book compresses a lifetime of feeling, thought, and practice: Klugeconsidered the father of New German Cinemais an inventive wellspring of narrative notions. "The power of his prose," asSmall Pressnoted, "exudes…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.00" wide x 6.97" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.286

Alexander Kluge is an author and filmmaker, known for launching the New German Cinema in the early 1960s.

Cinema in a State of Emergency
The Three Machines that Make Up Cinema
Machine Number 1
Machine Number 2: The Paying Public
Machine Number 3: "Penny Arcades"
The Journey to Budapest
What Can You Get In this World for One Cent?
Rem Koolhaas on "Blind Happiness"
Originally Film Was a Scientific Instrument/The Inflation of Fictional Themes
Triumph of the Arriflex/The Return of a Scientifically Oriented Application
Sun Over the Waterways of the Lido The Cinema In the Head of the Spectator
Hunger for Horror Or, A Tendency to Be Direct
To Bring the World Into the World
Many Spirits Feed on the Body of a Dead Star
The Battle of the Marne
Between Duty and Inclination
The Aura of the Remarkable
The Notorious Man
Gigolo
The Portrayal of a "Dragon" In Silent Film
The Blind Director
Do Not Forget Me
How We Cameramen Became Patriots, Simply Because We Were Efficient
Parade of New Year's Eve in Paris, 1918: How We Learned Too Late How to Capture a Subjective Impression on Film
Documentation through Posthumous Production
An Observation of Walter Benjamin
The Filming of "Added Value" : A Plan of Eisenstein and of Dziga Vertov's Brother
As a National Socialist In Hollywood
Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain
A Week of Rain with Joris Ivens
Rain in the Country
The Illusion of Never-Ending Rain
Concentrated Rain in Hurricanes
Scattered Showers
Catastrophes of the Ultimate Class
For the Time Being Only the Fish Seemed to Have Disappeared
A Cloudburst that Came as a Stroke of Luck
The Economy of Water
The Final Film Screening in the Reich Chancellery
His Last Deployment
An Example of the "Cinema of Ingredients" During the 1950s
The Robust Deployment of Film Techniques by Fellini
Nobody Wants to Sit in Complete Darkness in Front of a Television
Television Lamps of 1955 as a "Transitional Medium"
Great Cinema, Vanished as If Aborted
At the Nexus of Film History and Television
Cold Shower
Filming the Atmosphere of Advent
The Ploger Delicatessen as the Replacement Target of a Demonstration
On the Death of Bourgeois Achievements
A Natural Gift
The Revival of Film History from Tashkent
Evolutionary Diversity
Filming In Africa
Friesenhahn's Act
The Cosmos as Cinema