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22%OFFWerner Schroeter - Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir - 9780226019116 - V9780226019116
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Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir

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Description for Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir Hardcover. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 368 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139. .
Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between 1967 and 2008, including features, documentaries, and shorts, he ignored conventional narrative, creating instead dense, evocative collages of image and sound. For years, his work was eclipsed by contemporaries such as Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Alexander Kluge. Yet his work has become known to a wider audience through several recent retrospectives, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Written in the last years of his life, Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy sees Schroeter looking back at ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226019116
SKU
V9780226019116
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About Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter (1945 2010) was a German filmmaker who made such films as The Death of Maria Malibran, Day of the Idiots, and The Rose King. In 2008, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his life's work. In addition to his work in film, he directed numerous theatrical and operatic productions. Claudia Lenssen is ... Read more

Reviews for Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir
Schroeter lived his imagination with implacable fervor, and gave the world some of the most complex, sensuous, enthralling, and sophisticated works of cinema, opera, and theater it has ever seen and heard. His art is subtle and outrageous, drastic in its emotional perplexity, and instantly seductive, a magnificent alloy of the sublime and the absurd. His ideas sprang from an ... Read more

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