New German Cinema: A History [1st ed.]

Thomas Elsaesser

1989
Rutgers University Press / Macmillan, 430pp

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

Contents

chapter
1989

Introduction

Thomas Elsaesser 

1. Film Industry - Film Subsidy

 

2. The Old, the Young and the New: Commerce, Art Cinema and Autorenfilm?

 

3. The Author in the Film: Self-expression as Self-representation

 

4. In Search of the Spectator 1: From Oberhausen to Genre Films?

 

5. In Search of the Spectator 2: Cinema of Experience

 

6. In Search of the Spectator 3: Minority Views

 

7. The New German Cinema's Germany

 

8. Returning Home to History

 

9. National or International Cinema?

 

10. Conclusion