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contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Wenders and the New German Cinema
Central themes
1 On the Production of Images
The camera never lies: image and reality
Rescuing physical reality
The film image as illusion of reality
The inflation and reproduction of images
Television and the commercialisation of images
Cinema films in television
2 On the Construction of Narratives
Incompatibility of images and narrative
Narrative as structure
Story as ‘vampire’
Road movies and episodic narrative structure
Understatement of dramatic highlights
Temporal dilation in the filmic story
Wenders’ aesthetic of creative perception
3 Commentaries
Alice in the Cities
Paris, Texas
Tokyo Ga
Wings of Desire
The Million Dollar Hotel
Lisbon Story
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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