Postmodern cinema and postmodern culture: information-communication, otherness and history in Wenders’s Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)

Abstract

What one may call the obscenity of information is the common thread that runs through Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire, postmodern culture a n d Baudrillard's radical cultural critique. The latter shows that communication has degenerated into the availability of information (in advanced, post-industrial countries , at least), while Wenders’s film provides a paradigm for the problematization of communication and personal history in a postmodern culture of fragmentation.