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Ulrike Ottinger

Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination

Distributed for Intellect Ltd

Ulrike Ottinger

Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination

The first English-language scholarly collection of articles on the German artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger.

This book collects international scholarship on the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. These articles engage with the full range of her works, from the early Berlin feature films of the 1970s and 1980s to ethnographic documentaries and art exhibitions, photography shows, installations, and artist books. The collection brings together feminist film theorists with art historians and cultural theorists, each with a distinctive and detailed perspective on the queer fabulist genres of Ottinger, now in her eighties.
 

280 pages | 20 halftones | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2024

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Table of Contents

Introduction


      Angela McRobbie


 


PART ONE: The Wide Expanse of Work


1. Ulrike Ottinger in the Mirror of her Movies


      Patricia White


2. Moving Artefacts: Objects and their Agencies


      Katharina Sykora


3. Wit and Humour, When Objects Look Back: Comical Constellations in Ottinger’s Work


      Gertrud Koch


   


PART TWO: The Cities


4. Ulrike Ottinger and the Fashion Imagination


      Angela McRobbie


5. Recycling the Image of Berlin


      Esther Leslie  


6. Prater (2007) Cinema’s Carousel


      Mandy Merck  


 


PART THREE: China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea  


7. Rewriting the Ethnos through the Everyday: Ulrike Ottinger’s China. Die Kunste der Alltag


      Cassandra Xin Guan


8: The Timeliness of  Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia  (1989)


      Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon


9. ‘Time Flies but The Song Remains Forever’: Exil Shanghai as Audio-Visual Archive and Cross-Cultural Collage


      Tim Bergfelder


10: Hochzeiten


      Laurence A. Rickels 


 


PART FOUR: Shadows of the Past: Hoards and Collections


11: ‘Paris~Berlin et le monde entier’: Ulrike Ottinger’s Points of Departure


      Dominic Paterson


12: Shadow Plays: Charting Ulrike Ottinger’s Recent Navigations


      Nora M. Alter


13: Anachronism and Anti-Conquest: On Chamisso’s Shadow


      Thomas Love


 


PART FIVE:  Comment and Interviews


14: Ulrike Ottinger and the Strange Death of Metaphor


      Adrian Rifkin


15: ‘Most Young Women Are …..Bihonists’ :Interview with Yeran Kim


      Angela McRobbie 


16: ‘We Were Pioneers for Fashion Spectacles That Didn’t Exist Before’: Interview with Claudia Skoda


      Julia Meyer-Brehm


17: ‘Back Then We Often Went to The Lipstick’: Interview with Heidi von Plato


      Julia Meyer-Brehm


18: ‘The Magic of Costume and Masquerade’: Interview with Gisela Storch-Pesalozza


      Thomas Love


19: ‘As a Viewer You Have a Lot of Freedom’: Interview with Wieland Speck


      Thomas Love


 

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