WINGS OF DESIRE
(Der Himmel über Berlin)

PARTS: ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN
NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

Althusser, Louis, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster, London: new Left Books, 1971

Barry, Thomas F., "The Weight of Angels: Peter Handke and "Der Himmel über Berlin," modern Austrian Literature 23.3/4 (1990): 53-64.

Bordwell, David, Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Buchka, Peter, Augen kann man nicht kaufen: Wim Wenders und seine Filme, Munich: Heyne, 1990.

Bukatman, Scott, Blade Runner (BFI Modern Classics), London: The British Film Institute, 1997.

Caldwell, David, and Paul W. Rea, "Handke's and Wenders' Wings of Desire: Transcending Postmodernism," The German Quarterly 64 (Winter 1991): 46-54.

Caltvedt, Les, "Berlin Poetry: Archaic Cultural Patterns in Wenders' Wings of Desire," Literature/Film Quarterly 20:2 (1992): 121-126.

Cook, Roger, "Angels, Fiction and History in Berlin: Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire," The Germanic Review 66:1 (1991): 34-47. (The German passages are translated into English in the reprint of this essay in Roger Cook and Gerd Gemunden (eds.), The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition (Contemporary Film and Television Series), Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997.)

Ehrlich, Linda C., "Meditations on Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire," Literature/Film Quarterly 19:4 (1991): 242-246.

Fraser, Derek, The Buildings of Europe: Berlin, NY: Manchester University Press, 1996.

Fusco, Coco, "Angels, History and Poetic Fantasy: An Interview with Wim Wenders." Cineaste, 16:4 (1988): 14-17.

Gassm William H., Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation, new York: Random House, 1999.

Geist, Kathe, "Mothers and Children in the Films of Wim Wenders," Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions, volume I, Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, Inc., 1993: 11-22.

Gumble, Andres, Berlin, Chester, Conn: Globe Pequot Press, 1991.

Hass, Robert, "Looking For Rilke," in his Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, new York: Ecco Press, 1984: 226-268.

Helmteg, Charles H., "'... Of Men and of Angels': Literary Allusions in Wim Wenders' 'Wings of Desire'," Literature/Film Quarterly 18:4 (1990): 251-254.

"DER HIMMEL UBER BERLIN" entry in Magill's Survey of Cinema, (15 June) 1995, author uncredited.

hooks, bell, "Representing Whiteness: Seeing Wings of Desire," Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, Boston: South End Press, 1990, pp165-171.

Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry for "Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)," (www.imdb.com, specifically: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0093191).

Jaehne, Karen, "Angel Eyes: Wenders Soars," Film Comment 24:3 (1988): 18-20.

Kaes, Anton, M, London: British Film Institute, 1999.

Kuzniar, Alice, "Suture in/Suturing literature and film: Handke and Wenders," in Ingeborg Hoesterey and Ulrich Weisstein, eds., Intertextuality: German Literature and visual Art (Columbia, SC: Camden, 1993): 201-17.

Kuzniar, Alice A., "Ephemeral Inscriptions: Wenders' and Handke's Testimony to Writing," seminar 31:3 (September 1995): 217-228.

Ladd, Brian, The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Lauretis, Teresa de, and Andreas Huyssen and Kathleen Woodward, eds., The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions, Madison, WI: Coda Press, 1980

McLachlan, Gordon, Berlin, Lincoln/Chicago: NTC Publishing Group, 1995.

Makhmalbef, Mohsan, "Seeing with the heart," Sight and Sound 5:9 (Sept 1995): 48.

Mulvey, Laura, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Visual and Other Pleasures, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Oksiloff, Assenka, "Eden is Burning: Wim Wenders' Techniques of Synaesthesia," The German Quarterly 69:1 (Winter 1996): 32-47.

Oudart, Jean Pierre, "La Suture," Cahiers du Cinema 211 and 212 (April and May 1969) [translated into English as "Cinema and Suture," Screen 18:4 (1977-78): 35-47].

Paneth, Ira, [and Wim Wenders], "Wim and His Wings," Film Quarterly 42 (Fall 1988): 2-8.

Perlmutter, Ruth, "Wenders Returns Home on Wings of Desire," Source: Studies in the Humanities 20:1 (June 1993): 35-48.

Richie, Alexandra, Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin, NY: Carroll & Graf, 1998.

Rogowski, Christian, "'To Be Continued.' History in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and Thomas Brasch's Domino," German Studies Review 15:3 (1992): 547-563.

Rogowski, Christian, "'Der liebevolle Blick'? The problem of Perception in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire," seminar 29:4 (November 1993): 398-409.

Schütte Wolfram, "Niederfahrt zu den Menschen. Der Himmel über Berlin: der neue Film von Wim Wenders," Frankfurter Rundschau (Oct 29, 1987).

Seidenberg, Robert, "The Man Who Fell To Earth," American Film 13:8 (June 1988): 28-32.

Sexson, Michael, "The Storyteller and Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire," The Cresset (March 1993): 24-27.

Trainor, Richard, [and Henri Alekan], "Henri Alekan: Black and White Light," Sight and Sound 3:6 (June 1993): 14-17.

Vila, Xavier, and Alice Kuzniar, "Witnessing Narration in Wings of Desire," Film Criticism 16 (1992): 53-65.

Wenders, Wim, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations, Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, 1988 (English translation by Michael Hofmann, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1991).

Wenders, Wim, The Act of Seeing: Essays and Conversations, Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, 1992 (English translation by Michael Hofman, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1996).

Wings of Desire popular periodicals reviews:

Chicago Tribune. July 15, 1988, VII, p. 38

Film Comment. XXIV, May/June, 1988, p. 18

The Hudson Review. XLI, Fall, 1988, p. 521

Interview. XVIII, May, 1988, p. 122

Los Angeles Times. May 20, 1988, VI, p. 10

The Nation. CCXLVI, May 14, 1988, p. 691

National Review. XL, June 10, 1988, p. 54

The new Republic. CXCVIII, May 23, 1988, p. 26

new York. XXI, May 9, 1988, p. 68

The new York Times. CXXXVII, April 29, 1988, p. C15

The new Yorker. LXIV, May 30, 1988, p. 77

newsweek. CXI, May 23, 1988, p. 70

Time. CXXXI, May 9, 1988, p. 79


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