Ulrike Ottinger

Angela McRobbie FBA (Fellow of the Bristish Academy) is a British cultural theorist, feminist and commentator whose work combines the study of popular culture, contemporary media practices and feminism through conceptions of a third-person reflexive gaze. Emeritus Professor Goldsmiths University of London PhD Loughborough University Hon Doctorate Glasgow University, Visiting Professor Loughborough University.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

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 in Ulrike Ottinger’s Films – 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 in Bildnis einer Trinkerin (1979) – Angela McRobbie

5. Ottinger’s Berlin: Exotic of the Everyday – 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 Künste – Der Alltag – Cassandra Xin Guan

8. A Timely Education: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989) – Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon

9. 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



Notes on Contributors

Index