A critical application of C. G. Jung’s concepts of the transcendent function, individuation, persona, shadow, and sacrifice as well as the evolution of consciousness and complex theory to Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire reveals not only how... more
A critical application of C. G. Jung’s concepts of the transcendent function, individuation, persona, shadow, and sacrifice as well as the evolution of consciousness and complex theory to Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire reveals not only how these operate but how the location of the film, Berlin, also achieves an evolution of consciousness.
The article was a contribution to the Academic On line Magazine "Elephant & Castle" (Nr. 1, October 2010) edited by the Department of Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures of the Università di Bergamo. The topic of this issue was:... more
The article was a contribution to the Academic On line Magazine "Elephant & Castle" (Nr. 1, October 2010) edited by the Department of Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures of the Università di Bergamo. The topic of this issue was: Forms of the Sacred in Literature and Cinema (Ed. Raul Calzoni).
The article considers a connection between the theories of ekphrasis/enargeia and screenplay studies and investigates how two different ekphrasis traditions are combined in the film Wings of Desire (1986) in the partnership between its... more
The article considers a connection between the theories of ekphrasis/enargeia and screenplay studies and investigates how two different ekphrasis traditions are combined in the film Wings of Desire (1986) in the partnership between its screen-writers, Peter Handke and Wim Wenders. It begins with a brief review of these concepts in Greco-Roman oratory, then moves on to address ekphrasis in media. More specifically, ekphrasis is broached in Peter Handke's theatre and literary works, which evolve into his screenwriting for Wim Wenders' films. The article also contrasts the first draft of the screenplay for Wings of Desire with the final film, as it shares and analyses sections of Handke's verses that are excluded from Wenders' final film. You will find the entire version of the article on this site: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23418/
The following is the research essay written for my Film Studies MA, which studies the evolution of Hollywood's various approaches towards remaking international cinema. The featured case studies are City of Angels (the 1998 remake of... more
The following is the research essay written for my Film Studies MA, which studies the evolution of Hollywood's various approaches towards remaking international cinema. The featured case studies are City of Angels (the 1998 remake of Wings of Desire), The Grudge (the 2004 remake of Ju-On: The Grudge), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel, previously adapted to film in 2009).
