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Alexander Kluge The Last Modernist Peter C. Lutze

Through his films and theoretical writings, and as a television producer, teacher, political lobbyist, lawyer, and public spokesman, Alexander Kluge has played a substantial role in creating the New German Cinema, as well as in German cultural politics. Since 1961 Kluge has produced almost thirty films and hundreds of television programs, written four volumes of fiction, coauthored three major works of sociocultural theory, and won almost every major literary and film prize in Germany. Peter Lutze provides in-depth analyses of Kluge's films and television work but also devotes attention to his political work. In raising issues that have become key questions in contemporary debates about modernism and postmodernism, Kluge's films and pronouncements demonstrate his modernist sensibility and an appropriation of modernist formal strategies for the purpose of the social critique.

"Peter C. Lutze shows considerable range in moving from formal analysis and close textual reading to providing overviews of such broader spheres as German independent film production and television in the post-World War II era." —Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series $34.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2656-0 Reg. Price: $34.95 296 pages / 6 x 9 1998 Chosen as an "Outstanding Academic Book" by CHOICE