Bill Baker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University where he completed bachelor’s degrees in German and Russian in 2013 followed by a master’s degree in German in 2015. His research interests include the history of German film, relationship of German film to Japanese and Russian film, and the use of aesthetic blandness in art. He is currently writing his dissertation, Melancholy and Aesthetic Apprehension in the Films of Wim Wenders, which explores the role of mediation and melancholy over the course of Wenders’ oeuvre.
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