Wendersian

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adjective

Of or pertaining to Wim Wenders (born 1945), German filmmaker and playwright.

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Meanings

adjectiveWendersian (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebroadcastingOf or pertaining to Wim Wenders (born 1945), German filmmaker and playwright.

    As he elaborates the tale, we have a classic Wendersian mise-en-scène. Travis drives, and the sequence is filmed from his point of view, looking forwards out of the front windscreen of the car.

    1996 March, Thomas Docherty, “Discourse and Figure: The Resistance of/to Cinema” (chapter 7), in Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 163

Origin

From German Wenders + -ian.

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Chicago

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