From Alice to Buena Vista: The Films of Wim Wenders

by Roger Bromley

This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis combine to explore the major themes in the films with an emphasis on gender and narrative and on Wenders' concern with the representation of otherness. Wenders' earlier films reflect concerns with identity and with issues of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275966488
• ISBN13: 9780275966485
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Simply the Best!

Up to date, philosophically profound and provocative, and championing Wenders work where recent critics have turned off and tuned out,this is simply the best work we have on Wenders. Do not be put off by the austere, academic hardcover appearance: this is a stylish, and engaged encounter with Wenders work which, though the writer claims he is no film expert per se, has an intimate understanding of the spatial dimension of the medium as well as the thematic and ideological turn in Wenders work. With the renewed interested in Wenders since Buena Vista, this very informative book deserves a wide public. Let's hope the publishers issue this in paperback.