"Leben...ein Blick genügt doch": Der utopische Augenblick in Wim Wenders' road movies

Translated title of the contribution: "Life...one Glance is Enough": The Utopian Moment in Wim Wenders's Road Movies

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Abstract

In his road movies Wim Wendes borrows from the utopian thinking of previous centuries, New Age thought, and Christian religion and thus creates a postmodern utopian bricolage. Exploring the redemptive potential of traditional concepts of utopia, Wenders is most strongly indebted to Modernist writers with whom he shares the notion of a utopia reduced to an intensified moment of empathetic perception.
Translated title of the contribution"Life...one Glance is Enough": The Utopian Moment in Wim Wenders's Road Movies
Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)64-83
Number of pages21
JournalMonatshefte
Volume91
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 1999

Keywords

  • Wim Wenders, New German Cinema, auteur cinema, road movie, utopia

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