Wim Wenders

Olivier Delers is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction (2015). Martin Sulzer-Reichel is Director of Arabic at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of A Change in Perception: The Arab Reception of Emperor Frederick II and Other Protagonists of the Crusades from the 13th Century Until Today (2015).

Introduction: New Perspectives on Wim Wenders as Filmmaker and Visual Artist (Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, University of Richmond, USA)

Watching the Road Trilogy in the Twenty-First Century
1. Search for the Sublime: The Road Trilogy, or Wenders’s Roam-man-ticism (Oliver Speck, Viginia Commonwealth University, USA)
2. Writing in the Blood of the Past: Wrong Move and the Search for a Contemporary German Identity (Kristin Eichhorn,Universität Paderborn, Germany)
3. The Window-View and the Romantic Vision of the World: Notes on a Visual Leitmotif in the Films of Wim Wenders (Philipp Scheid, Universität Bonn, Germany)

Reimagining Cinema and Photography with Wenders
4. As If It Were For The Last Time: Wim Wenders—Film and Photography (George Kouvaros, University of New South Wales, Australia)
5. Wenders—Salgado: Space, Time and Transformation in Salt of the Earth (Darrell Varga, York University, Canada)
6. Wim Wenders’s Pina, a Cinematic Homage to Pina Bausch (Peter Beicken, University of Maryland, USA)

Transnational Wenders
7. Multitrack and Transcultural Narratives in Wim Wenders’s Works (Simone Malaguti, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Germany)
8. “I Can Imagine Anything”: The European Project in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (Mine Eren, Randolph-Macon College, USA)
9. Blandness and “Just Seeing” in the Films of Wim Wenders (William Baker, Ohio State University, USA)
10. The Heart of Things: Wim Wenders and the Evocations of Peace (Mary Zournazi, University of New South Wales, Australia)

Appendix
Bibliography
Filmography
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index