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New German cinema and its global contexts : a transnational art cinema /

"The last of the so-called new waves in film, New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s represents much more than a national phenomenon; it impacted and was influenced by films from around the world. Filmmakers such as the famous troika of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim W...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Abel, Marco (Editor), Fisher, Jaimey (Editor), Rentschler, Eric (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2025]
Series:Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Germany > 20th century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > Germany.
Motion pictures > German influences.
Cinéma > Allemagne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Production et réalisation > Allemagne.
Cinéma > Influence allemande.
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Motion pictures.
Germany.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film criticism.
Critiques cinématographiques.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts--A Transnational Art Cinema / Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher
  • (Don't) Look Back on Sylvie: Klaus Lemke, D.A. Pennebaker, and the "Lightness" of a "Left without Leftism" / Marco Abel
  • A Relentless Forward Movement: The German and Un-German Cinema of Roland Klick / Brad Prager
  • The Many Betrayals of Harun Farocki's Betrogen / Nora M. Alter
  • Gnomic Animation: Decrypting the German New Wave / Jennifer Lynde Barker
  • Documenting the Everyday in Allende's Chile: Peter Lilienthal's La Victoria and Raúl Ruiz's Palomita blanca / Claudia Sandberg
  • Katz und Maus: A West German Project in Poland by Pohland / John E. Davidson
  • Babelsberg Freedoms: The Films of the Babelsberg Film School, European New Waves, and New German Cinema / Ilka Brombach
  • The Ulm School and Feminist Film History / Hester Baer
  • On Debility in Helma Sanders-Brahms's Die Berührte / Ervin Malakaj
  • Enigmatic Soundscapes: Werner Herzog's Kaspar Hauser and Jane Campion's The Piano / Margaret Strair
  • New Hollywood Fassbinder: Genre and Gender in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle / Ian Fleishman
  • Institutionalizing Passion as Shocks to the System: Michel Foucault and Anti-Psychiatry in Werner Schroeter's Day of the Idiots and Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Jaimey Fisher
  • Afterword / Eric Rentschler.