Lutz Koepnick
Auteur van The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood
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Lutz Koepnick is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German, Cinema, and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. He is author of On Slowness: Toward on Aesthetic of the Contemporary, Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture, and The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and toon meer Hollywood. toon minder
Werken van Lutz Koepnick
On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) (2014) 12 exemplaren
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (Modern German Culture and Literature) (1999) 5 exemplaren
Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) (2007) 4 exemplaren
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BAY: "I don’t change my style for anybody. Pussies do that."
Even though Koepnick's strength lies in his ability to delve deep, mainly and also grandly, funnily weirdly into matters of capitalism and existentialism, the start of the book feels a bit like a Michael Bay hagiography. Still, there is a fair bit of dipping into the bad parts of both Bay's making of films and on how he treats actors, staff, et cetera:
I really missed the "male prerogative" in this book, actually; even though Koepnick writes of it, it is not really discussed, although this paragraph is of interest:
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Still, bar that and how Koepnick at times seems to like the sound of his voice a bit too much for my liking, I must say some parts of this book were a great read. Koepnick delves high and low with both detailed, David Foster Wallace-ish paragraphs, alongside ham-fisted and funny ones. Ham:
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Detailed:
Speaking of detail, this paragraph is wondrous, where Koepnick analyses neoliberalism into Bay:
All in all, this is a breath of fresh air as far as reading film theory goes for me; I must confess to being a near-total neophyte where this area is concerned, but I got through this book as an easy, eye-opening, and fun read.… (meer)