"With more than 130 films and a career spanning four decades, Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was one of the most controversial actors of his generation. This first ever collection of essays focusing on Kinski examines his work in exploitation and art house films and spaghetti westerns, along with his performances in cult classics"--
A marriage of inconvenience : Kinski, Herzog and the reenactment of German history / Joana Moura -- The physiological sublime in Aguirre / Patricia Castello Branco -- In darkness : the reality of evil in Nosferatu the Vampyre / David Williams -- Becoming Aguirre : Kinski between exploitation and stylization in Italian popular cinema / Roberto Cavallini -- "The only free man on this train" : the anarchist in Doctor Zhivago / Padraic Killeen -- Kinski Al Dente : physical acting in the spaghetti Western / Lance Duerfahrd -- Expressing the repressed : cinema as artiface and its polysemic possibilities / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Kinski in the films of Jesus "Jess" Franco and Harry Alan Towers / Tyson Wils -- Franco-German portrayals of the subject as object in La Chanson de Roland / Axel Andersson -- Doctor Kinski in B-Land : Creature, Android and Timestalkers / Benjamin Van Loon -- Crawlspace and the Kinski swerve / Tonya Howe -- Chaos and beauty : Paganini / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with actor Peter Berling / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with director David Paulsen / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with actor Flo Lawrence / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with production designer William DeSeta / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with director David Wickes / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with actor Barry Hickey / Matthew Edwards -- An interview with cinematographer Harry Mathias / Matthew Edwards.