CINE 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margarethe Von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, New German Cinema
19 Mar 2019
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Alexander kluge, edgar reitz, et al: other directors join the call for a new cinema: schlondorff, margarethe von trotta, wim. Wenders, werner herzog: 1971, development of the filmverlag der autoren, a collective of independent directors, including fassbinder and wenders. Made distribution possible: new german directors were looking for a cinematic fluency, a language that their home audiences could speak. Many germans were in the business of forgetting a 20-year span of nazi dominance, and dealing with conflicted feelings and a terrible economy: finding financing was difficult: needed popularity, but the audience was looking to. American escape and non-german confrontation. (timothy corrigan: new german film is: In relation to american tropes, styles, structures. Interested in individual perspectives (and not the usual individuals of film) First of all low-budget or small budgets, later includes funding from the. Ali: fear eats the soul (rainer werner fassbinder, gw, 1974) Themes: immigration, fear (post-berlin olympics), age, race, german identity.
