New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts - 9780814348918

New German Cinema and Its Global ContextsA Transnational Art Cinema\nAuthor(s): Marco Abel, Jaimey Fisher, Eric Rentschler, Barry Keith Grant\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wayne State University Press, United States\nImprint: Wayne State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814348918, 978-0814348918\nSynopsis\nThe last of the so-called new waves in film, New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s represents much more than a national phenomenon; it impacted and was influenced by films from around the world. Filmmakers such as the famous troika of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders, as well as directors, such as Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, and Helke Sander, and Volker Schlndorff received much critical acclaim both in Germany and abroad. These directors, their films, and their often-infamous reputations constitute one of the most intriguing and consequential legacies of European cinema and world culture. In this groundbreaking view of New German Cine.