Research Catalog

Title

Ulrike Ottinger : the autobiography of art cinema / Laurence A. Rickels.

Author

Rickels, Laurence A.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.

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Details

Description

xvi, 207 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Ottinger, Ulrike, 1942- > Criticism and interpretation
• Ottinger, Ulrike, 1942-
• Ottinger, Ulrike 1942-
• Ottinger, Ulrike > Film
• Ottinger, Ulrike
• Ottinger, Ulrike
• Bibel
• 1900-1999
• Motion picture producers and directors > Biography
• Motion pictures > History > 20th century
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Motion pictures
• Film
• Regissörer
• Film

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.
• Biografie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207).

Contents

Bouncing bio. Laocoon and sons ; Berlin fever: Wolf Vostell ; The infatuation of the blue sailors -- Satanic arts. Madame X: an absolute ruler -- Between media. Ticket of no return -- Hit and miss. Freak Orlando -- Operation art. The image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press -- The art of everyday life. China: the arts: everyday life ; Superbia ; Usinimage -- Johanna's Ark; or, documentary film's covenant with art cinema. Johanna d' Arc of Mongolia ; Real time travel ; Taiga -- I was there. Countdown ; Exit Shanghai -- Curtains. Das Verlobungsfest im Feenreich -- My last interview with Ulrike Ottinger. Southeast passage ; Ester ; The exemplar ; Twelve chairs -- Totem taboo. "Totem" -- Going ape. Prater.

ISBN

• 9780816653300
• 0816653305
• 9780816653317
• 0816653313

LCCN

• 2008012866
• 9780816653300

OCLC

• ocn191760074
• 191760074
• SCSB-14002829

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library