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Volker Schlouml;ndorffrsquo;s Cinema: Adaptation; Politics and the ldquo;Movie-Appropriaterdquo; examines the work of major postwar German director Volker Schlouml;ndorff in historical; economic; and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film; twenty-eight chapter study; Hans-Bernhard Moeller George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal ambitiousness of Schlouml;ndorff that is comparable to that found in Wenders; Herzog; and Fassbinder. In spite of Schlouml;ndorffrsquo;s successes with films like The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum and The Tin Drum; as well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with Death of a Salesman; Gathering of Old Men and The Handmaidrsquo;s Tale; this is the first in-depth critical study of the filmmakerrsquo;s career. In the context of film and television history; this book relates Schlouml;ndorffrsquo;s oeuvre to the New German Cinema; to his formative years as a student and production assistant in France; and to his roots in the Weimar cinemarsquo;s tradition. It reveals how Schlouml;ndorff entered into the German film production system in the 1960s; how he came to rely on German public television in the 1970s; and then moved to the international and American financing in the 1980s; attempting to redevelop the Babelsberg studios in a 1990s post-Wall Germany while continuing to make his own films into the 21st century. The book captures how Schlouml;ndorffrsquo;s nearly half century of ongoing creativity and productivity ties together. The authors analyze the artistry of each Schlouml;ndorff movie arguing that his output as a whole embodies a provocative and sometimes contradictory set of balances. Schlouml;ndorff combines commercial interest with significant artistic ambition; blends the kinesthetic pleasures of moving images with the seriousness of fine literature; links the intensity of individualized personal experience to an awareness of broader political issues; and represents a specifically German sensibility even as he reaches out to the international audiences. The authors demonstrate the cyclical recurrence in his cinema of certain themes (individual and collective rebellion; fascist suppression; masochistic love); narrative patterns (the Western; the thriller; the subjective mood piece); and stylistic approaches (Brechtian Verfremdung; the creation of careful leitmotif structures; the use of the grotesque). In over thirty years of filmmaking; Schlouml;ndorff has produced a remarkable unified body of work that deserves the attention of a book-length study. Authors Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis offer the first such study of its kind.Volker Schlouml;ndorffrsquo;s Cinema: Adaptation; Politics; and the ldquo;Movie-Appropriaterdquo; features forty-one illustrations.