The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)

by Julian Preece

Overview

“Brisk [and] forceful.” Sight & Sound
"Lucidly argued.” Total Film

Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes Katharina Blum new and radical, in particular in respect of women's cinema and its portrayal of the ordeal of its female lead in a world run by men. Drawing on archival material including drafts of the screenplay, brochures and props, reviews and interviews, Preece traces the conception of the film and its development from Heinrich Böll's original novel.

Preece analyses how the film continues to resonate with our contemporary moment and has influenced film-makers from the German-Turkish director Fatih Akin to the British screenwriter Peter Morgan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839024375
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/28/2022
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	682,945
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.45(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University, UK. His articles have featured in The German Monitor, German Life and Letters, and Monatshefte. His previous books include Günter Grass (2018), Baader-Meinhof and the Novel: Narratives of the Nation/Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010 (2012), and Out of the Shadows of a Husband: The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti (2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Pivotal Film for New German Cinema
1. Political Context
2. The Novel
3. The Film
4. Reception, Influence and Afterlives
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Credits

Editorial Reviews

Brisk [and] forceful.” —Sight & Sound

“Exhaustively researched, and lucidly argued.” —Total Film

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