{"product_id":"a-credible-utopia-essays-on-selected-films-of-werner-schroeter-paperback","title":"A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Valente\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter\u003c\/i\u003e offers unique and personal insights into Schroeter's cinematic universe. Many of the films discussed in this book are those upon which Schroeter's worldwide reputation rests: \u003ci\u003eDer Bomberpilot\u003c\/i\u003e, an absurdist comedy; \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Maria Malibran\u003c\/i\u003e, a film about ecstatic redemption in death; \u003ci\u003eWillow Springs\u003c\/i\u003e, about the complex relationships between men and women;\u003ci\u003e Day of the Idiots\u003c\/i\u003e, a visually baroque, operatic and highly dramatic film about madness; \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom of Naples\u003c\/i\u003e, Schroeter's visually stunning depiction of Italy in the post-war years; and\u003ci\u003e Palermo or Wolfsburg, \u003c\/i\u003e for which Schroeter won the Golden Bear, an epic film about love, violence, and cultural malaise. But Valente also addresses Schroeter's early experimental films that don't get as much attention, such as\u003ci\u003e Aggression, Neurasia, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Argila, \u003c\/i\u003e all of which are about the struggle between repression and desire, and \u003ci\u003eDeux\u003c\/i\u003e, a late work that Schroeter considered his masterpiece, a film about the double and the ways in which identity is formed by integrating the abject part of ourselves with the good. Valente concludes with an analysis of \u003ci\u003eNuit de Chien\u003c\/i\u003e, Schroeter's final film, a powerful summation of a live devoted to art, music, literature, and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of Schroeter's ouevre in 2012, there was hardly anything in English on his films and only one film available on DVD in the US, such that Schroeter's work as a director has remained largely invisible in the English-speaking world. \u003ci\u003eA Credible Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e repairs this lacuna in film history, and, in a detailed and intimate reading of Schroeter's queer ouevre, links all these films together through Schroeter's desire for a \"credible utopia,\" despite our shared awareness of disaster, torture, viciousness, and political corruption in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Valente\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator, and author of twelve books, including a translation of Nanni Balestrini's \u003ci\u003eBlackout\u003c\/i\u003e (Commune Editions, 2017), which received a starred review in \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly.\u003c\/i\u003e His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eEssays on the Peripheries\u003c\/i\u003e (punctum books, 2021). Forthcoming is his translation of \u003ci\u003eNicolas Pages\u003c\/i\u003e by Guillaume Dustan (Semiotext(e), 2023) and his translation of Gérard de Nerval, \u003ci\u003eThe Illuminated\u003c\/i\u003e (Wakefield Press, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464882733309,"sku":"9781685710569","price":36.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/6ax4WHqaoX9781685710569.webp?v=1777261844","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/a-credible-utopia-essays-on-selected-films-of-werner-schroeter-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}