The Cinema of Wim Wenders: From Paris, France to "Paris, Texas" (Studies in Cinema)

Wim Wenders is a leading director of the New German Cinema, an auteur cinema created by a number of young filmmakers including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wenders himself. Achieving international recognition in the 1970s, it was an attempt to bring new life and meaning to the dying German film industry by focusing on the nature of contemporary human experience. Kathe Geist's critical analysis, the third and most detailed to be written in English, places Wenders's work within the larger context of the West German film industry and his own personal evolution as an artist. It explores Wenders's life and work from 1967 to 1985: from his early student films to his mature collaborations with playwrights Peter Handke and Sam Shepard. Geist has thoroughly researched the extant materials on her subject and has synthesized them coherently to give us a comprehensive view of the artist and his work.