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New German Cinema
Transcript of Com 315 week11.1
COM/ENG 315 History of the Motion Picture
Week 13.1
11/15
Outline
New German Cinema – Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(cont)– Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders
Journal: challenges in creating a new German Cinema (part 1 due in class)
HWK: Watch Pulp Fiction by next Monday (11/22)
New German Cinema
“The old cinema is dead. We believe in the new cinema” - Oberhausen Manifesto 28 February 1962– artistic excellence rather than commercial
dictates– inspired by Italian neorealism, French
New Wave, and Hollywood – Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders
New German Cinema
“A loose alliance of autonomous auteurs”
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982)
40 films in 15 years!Politicalpopular/subversiveDouglas Sirk
Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
idiosyncraticuse of locationsheroes with impossible dreamsobsession, desire, madness
Wim Wenders (b. 1945)
SpacesIdentityFriendshipsLoners Contemplative
Journal discussion
What were some of the challenges in creating a new national cinema in Germany?
New German Cinema
What tensions
within German society are reflected in Ali:Fear Eats the Soul?
[part 2 due in class Wed 11/17]
HWK
Watch Pulp Fiction and complete Journal #11 by Monday 11/22
