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This module explores key contexts, ideas, trends, directors and films associated with the New German Cinema, from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. It is organised around a series of core films, each of which illuminates a significant aspect or aspects of that movement. Themes include German histories of violence; the family; the so-called Economic Miracle; outsiders; revolt and protest; gender, ethnicity and identity; and various modes of formal and narrative experimentation. A diverse and representative range of directors and films will be considered.Ìý.

Content Notes

Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýSome of the films to be studied contain themes and images of violence, in both documentary and dramatic footage. These themes and images include sexual violence and domestic abuse.ÌýÌý

Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýSome of the films contain sexual themes and images, and nudity.ÌýÌý

Preparatory Reading

Ìý Ìý Ìý Geschichte des deutschen Films, ed. by Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes and Hans Helmut Prinzler (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993)Ìý

Ìý Ìý Ìý Thomas Elsaesser, New German Cinema: A History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989)Ìý

Ìý Ìý Ìý The BFI Companion to German Cinema, ed. by Thomas Elsaesser with Michael Wedel (London: British Film Institute, 1999)Ìý

Ìý Ìý Ìý Hans Günther Pflaum and Hans Helmut Prinzler, Film in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Der neue deutsche Film von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart: Ein Handbuch. Mit einem Exkurs über dasÌý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Kino der DDR (Munich: Hanser, 1992)Ìý

Ìý Ìý Ìý Corrigan, Timothy, New German Film: The Displaced Image (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994)Ìý

Ìý Ìý Ìý Augenzeugen: 100 Texte neuer deutscher Filmemacher, ed. by Hans Helmut Prinzler and Eric Rentschler (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Autoren, 1988)Ìý

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