The Stubborn Persistence of Alexander Kluge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Introduction
4. Editor’s Introduction 13
5. The Stubborn Persistence of Alexander Kluge 22
6. Film, Politics and the Public Sphere
7. On Film and the Public Sphere 33
8. Cooperative Auteur Cinema and Oppositional Public Sphere: Alexander Kluge’s Contribution to Germany in Autumn 50
9. ‘What is Different is Good’: Women and Femininity in the Films of Alexander Kluge 72
10. Rethinking History
11. In Search of Germany: Alexander Kluge’s The Patriot 95
12. Alexander Kluge and German History: ‘The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8.4.1945’ 127
13. The Air Raid on Halberstadt, 8 April 1945 (extract) 155
14. Realism as Protest
15. Construction Site Film: Kluge’s Idea of Realism and His Short Films 173
16. The Sharpest Ideology: That Reality Appeals to its Realistic Character 191
17. Debate on the Documentary Film: Conversation with Klaus Eder, 1980 197
18. Opera as a ‘Power Plant of Emotion’
19. Undoing Act 5: History, Bodies and Operatic Remains in The Power of Emotion 211
20. ‘Feelings Can Move Mountains …’: An Interview with Alexander Kluge on the Film The Power of Feelings 241
21. Alexander Kluge’s Phantom of the Opera 247
22. Storytelling and Politics
23. An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time 271
24. The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings 283
25. At the 2003 International Security Conference 291
26. Television and Counter-Public Spheres
27. Raw Materials for the Imagination: Kluge’s Work for Television 305
28. Television and Obstinacy 318
29. Reframing Islam in Television: Alexander Kluge’s Interviews on Islamand Terrorism since 9/II 331
30. In the Real Time of Feelings: Interview with Alexander Kluge 352
31. Television Interviews
32. Character Armour and MobileWarfare 365
33. Jeff Mills: Godfather of Techno 369
34. Tsunami of Emotion: On Puccini’s Tosca 378
35. Early Cinema/Recent Work
36. Reinventing the Nickelodeon: Notes on Kluge and Early Cinema 389
37. ‘All Things Are Enchanted Human Beings’: Remarks on Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity 409
38. Selected Bibliography of English-Language Texts 417
39. Acknowledgments 422
40. Notes on Contributors 425
41. Index 430