German Cinema Since 1945

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The theory and history of German film as an art form, from filmmakers such as Alexander Kluge, Bernhard Wicki, and the “new filmmakers” Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Margarete von Trotta, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders. Topics include silent film; New German Cinema, 1962-1985; national cinema and national identity; film as literature and from literary models; problems of authors and their audiences; women’s film, film in the former German Democratic Republic; and the influence of American filmmakers, subject matter, and settings.