New German Cinema: A History

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New German Cinema: A History
Author Thomas Elsaesser
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject New German Cinema
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Publication date
1989
Pages430
ISBN 978-0-8135-1392-8

New German Cinema: A History is a 1989 book about the New German Cinema, a film movement in the second half of the 20th century. It was written by the German-British film historian Thomas Elsaesser and published by Rutgers University Press. [1]

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Synopsis

The book is an analysis of the New German Cinema, a film movement in West Germany during the second half of the 20th century, which according to Elsaesser peaked in the 1970s. The movement included filmmakers such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and Volker Schlöndorff. Elsaesser brings up political, historical, biographical and other perspectives and highlights the importance of state subsidies for the movement's existence. [2]

Reception

In the German Studies Review , Richard C. Helt described the book as a welcome update to the previous studies of the New German Cinema in English, all of which were from the early 1980s. [3] Publishers Weekly commended Elsaesser's analysis of how German culture and regional character played into the movement and wrote that the book's explanation of the film-subsidies system is an "equal triumph". [2]

New German Cinema: A History was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovács Prize in Film and Video Studies and the Jay Leyda Prize in 1990. [4]

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References

  1. Hake, Sabine (1990). "The new German cinema: Problems of historiography". Quarterly Review of Film and Video . 12 (4): 107–115. doi:10.1080/10509209109361366.
  2. 1 2 "New German Cinema: A History". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  3. Helt, Richard C. (1990). "Thomas Elsaesser. New German Cinema: A History". German Studies Review . 13 (1): 189–191. doi:10.2307/1431094.
  4. Lang, Robert; Sloan, Jane (1990). "Professional Notes". Cinema Journal . 29 (4): 75. JSTOR   1225317.