New German Cinema: Images of a Generation"New German Cinema: The Images of a Generation" explores the context from which the films made by Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog, von Trotta and others emerged during the late 1960s through to the mid-1980s. It examines the American dominance of the German market place, the development of a film subsidy system, the notion and politics of an Autorenkino, the framework of European art cinema, and distribution and exhibition initiatives that helped facilitate the birth of and shape a new national cinema. The author discusses the way in which the New German Cinema films engaged with contemporary West German reality and how the films can be read as raising important questions about West Germany's self understanding in the postwar era. Although the new cinema was internationally acclaimed, critics were virtually unanimous in declaring its demise in the early 1980s and this study concludes with a consideration of a number of factors that contributed to such a perception. |
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Abschied von gestern Alice Anita art cinema audiences Autorenkino awarded became box-office Bruno commercial contemporary critical acclaim developed economic Edgar Reitz Elsaesser 1989 Emmi Ensslin experiences explores Fassbinder Fassbinder's feature film Federal Republic film culture Film Festival film industry film production film-makers film's funding Gastarbeiter genre German Cinema films German history German Sisters Germany in Autumn Gudrun Ensslin guest workers Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Heimat Helke Sander Helma Sanders-Brahms hence Herzog Hitler Hollywood Holocaust instance issues Jonathan Juliane Katharina Blum Kluge Kuratorium Lene lives Margarethe von Trotta Marianne narrative national cinema Nazi Nazi past Nazism Notstandgesetze Oberhausen Manifesto Oskar's Pale Mother police political possible to argue post-war reality Redupers Reitz relationship Rentschler Ripley role Sanders-Brahms Schlöndorff SCREEN Shirin SHORT CUTS social story Stroszek suggests terrorist Tin Drum Trotta viewers voice-over Volker Schlöndorff Wenders West German cinema West German film women women's cinema Yesterday Girl Young German Film
References to this book
Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema: Homeless at Home Inga Scharf No preview available - 2008 |
When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America, 1985-2005 Christine Haase Limited preview - 2007 |