The Ambivalent Object(s) of America in Wim Wenders

This article will consider Wim Wenders’ relationship to America in several of his films during the New German Cinema Movement 1970s and 1980s. In particular, it explore place occupies as a fantasy object, framing this through distinct roles individual objects play films. Firstly, initial period life, various accounts point fact that director related American culture substitute for own country’s fascistic past. Such viewpoint is then countered film Alice Cities (1972), where protagonist initially puzzled by enigma America, but finds he can comprehend upon hearing Hollywood John Ford’s passing from newspaper. The State Things (1982), apropos experience working under Francis Ford Coppola, again changes, time subject’s mastery over objects, object subject. However, an alternative position emerges more careful reading Hammett which, exists short-circuit typical narrative cinematic trajectory. Rather than emphasizing subject or use narrative, reveals implicating two dialectic. takes on refined inflection Paris, Texas which implicates themselves their fantasy, repeating radical gesture (1982) forging new between object.