Deterritorializing the new German cinema
By: John E. Davidson.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Germany -- History.
Description: This book takes the story of the New German Cinema beyond its strictly German context to show its relation to the international constellations of the Cold War and postcolonial politics. After a reevaluation of the political and aesthetic atmosphere of the 1950s and 1960s. John E. Davidson looks at the ways in which conceptions of "the German" are deployed in important works through the two generations that followed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-194) and index.