Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema : Homeless at Home

ISBN-13: 9780415962803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 250 str.

Inga Scharf

Opis

The main purpose of this book is to investigate national identity issues in films of the New German Cinema using, for the first time, a cultural studies analysis. Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation of critical filmmakers and their ‘German-ness’ translated into feature films which construct, and are pervaded by, a sense of ‘homelessness’ at home.

As the first cultural studies investigation of this cinematic movement, the book challenges the existing film studies accounts by analysing the New German Cinema within its social, temporal and spatial contexts. Furthermore, with its broad concerns for the West German production context, the New German Cinema’s reception both nationally and internationally, as well as issues of representation, narration and ‘Othering’, the book offers an interdisciplinary contribution to the ongoing debate on national cinema.

O autorze

Inga Scharf  currently works for the German National Academic Foundation. Her publications include the article A Cultural Studies Approach Towards a Critical Understanding of the New German Cinema, and the book chapter National Identity and the Critical Geopolitics of West German Film.