New German Cinema

New German Cinema

Author: Thomas Elsaesser

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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The simultaneous international success in the 1970s of such filmmakers as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders led critics to talk of a 'New German Cinema'. Thomas Elsaesser's book is the most comprehensive and illuminating study yet produced about this major movement in world cinema.


New German Cinema

New German Cinema

Author: Julia Knight

Publisher: Wallflower Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781903364284

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Comprising a discussion of 'Alice in the Cities', 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant', 'Heimat' and 'The American Friend', Julia Knight's study examines the American dominance of German film, the framework of European art cinema and how German cinema engages with contemporary German reality.


Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema

Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema

Author: Inga Scharf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-06-30

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1135895317

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In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation of critical filmmakers and their ‘German-ness’ translate into feature films that construct, and are pervaded by, a sense of "homelessness" at home. As the first cultural studies investigation of this cinematic movement, the book challenges existing film studies accounts by analyzing the New German Cinema within its social, temporal, and spatial contexts. Furthermore, with its broad concerns for the West German production context, the New German Cinema’s reception both nationally and internationally, as well as issues of representation, narration, and ‘Othering,’ Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema offers an interdisciplinary contribution to the ongoing debate on national cinema.


Framing the Fifties

Framing the Fifties

Author: John Davidson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1845455363

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This anthology offers an account of German cinema in the fifties, focusing on popular genres, famous stars and dominant practices, taking into account the complicated relationships between East and West Germany, and by paying attention to the economic and political conditions of film production and reception during this period.


The New German Cinema

The New German Cinema

Author: John Sandford

Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published: 1982-08-21

Total Pages: 186

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Examining the New German Cinema as a whole, Sandford provides a film-by-film study of seven directors, locating their achievements within a frame of developments in television, drama, documentaries, and the political history of contemporary Germany itself. He also surveys the thematic concerns that dominate--or are notably absent from--these films. --From publisher description.


A Companion to German Cinema

A Companion to German Cinema

Author: Terri Ginsberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-13

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 1405194367

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A Companion to German Cinema A Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, the collection is distinguished by its focus on new developments and the innovative light they may shed on earlier practices. A Companion to German Cinema includes essays on Berlin Film, Neue Heimat Film, New Comedy, post-Wall documentaries, the post-Wende RAF genre, and Rabenmutter imagery, as well as on the persistently overlooked and under-theorized Indianerfilme, post-AIDS documentaries, sexploitation films, and new multicultural and transnational films produced in Germany under the auspices of the European Union. Organized into three “movements” representing the significance of these developments for their aesthetic theorization, A Companion to German Cinema challenges its readers to address critical gaps in the field with the aim of opening it further onto new terrains of intellectual engagement.