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The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles engage with the full range of the works, from the early Berlin feature films of the 1970s and .'80s to the ethnographic documentaries also including the art exhibitions, photography shows, installations, and artist books. The book brings together feminist film theorists with art historians and cultural theorists, each with a distinctive and detailed perspective on the queer fabulist genres of Ottinger now in her 80s.
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"'With a 'monstrous capacity to make images' (Rifkin) and a career that's so far spanned 60 years, filmmaker, artist, photographer, Ulrike Ottinger remains a huge figure. This monumental collection of essays and commentaries offers an essential tribute to Ottinger's importance. Accessible, enlightening and scholarly, the breadth and comprehensiveness of Angela McRobbie's Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art
Stella Bruzzi FBA, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Film Studies, UCL
"'The wonderfully heterodox nature of Ulrike Ottinger's work is captured here by leading scholars from a number of fields, lending this collection of essays a prismatic quality. Paying homage to the variety of form, from film and photography to sculpture and installations, and always with an eye to artifice, what comes into focus above all else is Ottinger's unending romance with performance and p
Janet Harbord, Queen Mary, University of London