New German cinema
Related: Rainer Werner Fassbinder - German cinema - film - Werner Herzog - Wim Wenders - Volker Schlöndorff
Definition
New German cinema [also know as Neue Deutsche welle]is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1970s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors. Working with low budgets, and influenced by the maverick "New Hollywood" directors, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of "small" motion pictures that caught the attention of the art house crowd, and enabled these directors (particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff) into better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios. Their success sparked a renaissance in German films which may not have returned the country to the glory days of the UFA, but did bring the film industry back to Germany and encouraged other German filmmakers to make quality movies. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_German_Cinema [Oct 2005]Last Wave of Modernism and the First Wave of Postmodernism
By 1975 la Nouvelle Vague was beginning to mellow, and to lose influence in world film culture. The hip critics were writing more about new German directors like Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders, and about third-world film. But, whatever their virtues, Das Neue Kino, African, and South American cinema didn't have the same intellectual focus or polemical force as the French cinema of the sixties that we called the New Wave. --James Monaco, January 2001, http://www.readfilm.com/newwave.html [Jun 2004]New German Cinema: Images of a Generation (2004) - Julia Knight
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Synopsis
New German Cinema explores the context from which the films made by Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog and others emerged during the late 1960s through to the mid-1980s. it examines the US dominance of the German market place, the development of the film subsidy system, the framework of European art cinema and distribution and exhibition initiatives that helped to facilitate the shape of a new national cinema. --via Amazon.com
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.
About the Author
Julia Knight is Principal Lecturer in the Media Arts department at the University of Luton. She has published widely on German cinema and various aspects of British independent film and video. --http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/190336/1903364280.HTM [Oct 2004]
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