Ulrike Ottinger

Angela McRobbie FBA (Fellow of the Bristish Academy) is a British cultural theorist, feminist and commentator whose work combines the study of popular culture, contemporary media practices and feminism through conceptions of a third-person reflexive gaze. Emeritus Professor Goldsmiths University of London PhD Loughborough University Hon Doctorate Glasgow University, Visiting Professor Loughborough University.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction – Angela McRobbiePART ONE: The Wide Expanse of Work1. Ulrike Ottinger in the Mirror of her Movies – Patricia White2. Moving Artefacts: Objects and their Agencies in Ulrike Ottinger’s Films – Katharina Sykora3. Wit and Humour – When Objects Look Back: Comical Constellations in Ottinger’s Work – Gertrud KochPART TWO: The Cities4. Ulrike Ottinger and the Fashion Imagination in Bildnis einer Trinkerin (1979) – Angela McRobbie5. Ottinger’s Berlin: Exotic of the Everyday – Esther Leslie 6. Prater (2007) Cinema’s Carousel – Mandy Merck PART THREE: China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea 7. Rewriting the Ethnos through the Everyday: Ulrike Ottinger’s China. Die Künste – Der Alltag – Cassandra Xin Guan8. A Timely Education: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989) – Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon9. Exil Shanghai as Audio-Visual Archive and Cross-Cultural Collage – Tim Bergfelder10. Hochzeiten – Laurence A. RickelsPART FOUR: Shadows of the Past: Hoards and Collections11. ‘Paris~Berlin et le monde entier’: Ulrike Ottinger’s Points of Departure – Dominic Paterson12. Shadow Plays: Charting Ulrike Ottinger’s Recent Navigations – Nora M. Alter13. Anachronism and Anti-Conquest: On Chamisso’s Shadow – Thomas LovePART FIVE: Comment and Interviews14. Ulrike Ottinger and the Strange Death of Metaphor – Adrian Rifkin15. ‘Most Young Women... Are Bihonists’: Interview with Yeran Kim – Angela McRobbie16. ‘We Were Pioneers for Fashion Spectacles That Didn’t Exist Before’: Interview with Claudia Skoda – Julia Meyer-Brehm17. ‘Back Then We Often Went to the "Lipstick"’: Interview with Heidi von Plato – Julia Meyer-Brehm18. ‘The Magic of Costume and Masquerade’: Interview with Gisela Storch-Pesalozza – Thomas Love19. ‘As a Viewer You Have a Lot of Freedom’: Interview with Wieland Speck – Thomas LoveNotes on Contributors Index

'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 and the Ethnographic Imagination, will undoubtedly introduce her work to new audiences. This important book achieves two striking things: it demonstrates how contemporary Ottinger will always be and cements her legacy and reputation as one of the most significant and influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.'