Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 The Joys and Perils of Victimhood 1
2 Fascinating Narcissism: Leni Riefenstahl 17
3 Werner Herzog and His Heroes 35
4 The Genius of Berlin: Rainer Werner Fasshinder 49
5 The Destruction of Germany 63
6 There's No Place Like Heimat 77
7 The Afterlife of Anne Frank 103
8 Occupied Paris: The Sweet and the Cruel 119
9 The Twisted Art of Documentary 135
10 Ecstatic About Pearl Harbor 149
11 Suicide for the Empire 163
12 Eastwood's War 179
13 Robbed of Dreams 191
14 The Catty Chronicler: Marry Kessler 205
15 The Believer 219
16 The Last Bengali Renaissance Man 233
17 The Way They Live Now: Mike Leigh 247
18 The Great Art of Embarrassment 261
19 The Invention of David Bowie 279
20 Dressing for Success 293
21 The Circus of Max Beckmann 307
22 Degenerate Art 321
23 George Grosz's Amerika 331
24 Mr. Natural 349
25 Obsessions in Tokyo 361
26 A Japanese Tragedy 375
27 Virtual Violence 389
28 AsiaWorld 405
Sources 423