Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, the Film Director as Critical Thinker

ISBN-13: 9789463008297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str.

R. J. Cardullo

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pHans-Jürgen Syberberg is an original, the most controversial of all the New German directors and a figure who has long been at the vanguard of the resurgence of experimental filmmaking in his homeland. Syberberg’s most characteristic films examine recent German history: a documentary, for example, about Richard Wagner’s daughter-in-law, who was a close friend of Hitler (iThe Confessions of Winifred Wagner/i [1975]). But especially “historical” is his trilogy covering one hundred years of Germany’s past, including, most famously, iHitler—A Film from Germany/i, also known as iOur Hitler/i (1977). In this film and other works, Syberberg unites fictional narrative and documentary footage in a style that is at once cinematic and theatrical, mystical and magical./ppiHans-Jürgen Syberberg, the Film Director as Critical Thinker: Essays and Interviews/i is the first edited book in English devoted to this director’s work, and includes his most important English-language interviews as well as some of the best English-language essays on his work. In sum, this book is a significant contribution not only to the study of Syberberg’s ioeuvre/i, but also to the study of German history and politics in the second half of the twentieth century./p