Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter - Paperback

by Olivier Delers (Editor), Martin Sulzer-Reichel (Editor)

Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography. In addition to offering new insights into his cult masterpieces, the 10 essays in this volume highlight the thematic and aesthetic continuities between his early films and his latest productions. Wenders's films have much to contribute to current conversations on intermediality, whether it be through his adaptations of important literary works or his filmic reinventions of famous paintings by Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth. Wenders has also positioned himself as a decidedly transnational and translingual filmmaker taking on the challenge of representing peripheral spaces without falling into the trap of a neo-colonial gaze. Making Films That Matter argues that Wenders remains a true innovator in both his experiments in 3D filmmaking and his attempts to define a visual poetics of peace.

Author Biography

Olivier Delers is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction (2015).

Martin Sulzer-Reichel is Director of Arabic at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of A Change in Perception: The Arab Reception of Emperor Frederick II and Other Protagonists of the Crusades from the 13th Century Until Today (2015).