I. Late Modernism and the Arriere-Gardist: Surveying the Modernist Terrain. 1. The Artist as Activist: Kluge and Modernism. 2. The Armed Filmmaker: Donning the Autor Armor. 3. Telling, Condensing Interrupting: Narrative/Antinarrative. 4. Cinema Impure: An Eclectic Modernist Style -- II. A Modernist in a Postmodern Era: Excursus into an Altered Landscape. 5. The Film in the Autor's Head: Making Meaning. 6. Kluge on Television: High Culture Meets the Small Screen. 7. Recollecting the Fragments: Conclusions
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Filmography: pages 245-260
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index
