Allegorical Images

Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter

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by Michelle Langford

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Werner Schroeter

Keywords

Werner Schroeter, director, Germany, New German Cinema

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

Intellect Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 215 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

1-84150-138-7
978-1-84150-138-3

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Book Presentation:
Werner Schroeter is one of the most important and influential directors of the New German Cinema, yet discussion of his films within film theory has been intermittent and un-sustained. This book provides a long-overdue introduction to Schroeter’s visually lavish, idiosyncratic and conceptually rich cinema, situating its emergence within the context of the West German television and film subsidy system during the 1970s, then moving on to engage with some of the most pertinent and important arguments in contemporary film theory. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, and Bertolt Brecht, the author negotiates her way through the complex allegorical terrain of Schroeter’s films by focusing on their insistent and original use of the cinematic tableaux, allegorical montage, temporal layering and gestural expression. In doing so, this book also makes a valuable contribution to developing a theory of cinematic allegory by locating Schroeter’s films in the context of a wider “allegorical turn” in contemporary European and post-colonial filmmaking.

’Allegorical Images’ serves not only as a compelling and sophisticated introduction to Schroeter’s cinema, but also makes a major contribution to a range of debates in contemporary film theory around allegory, tableaux, time and gesture.

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