Women and the New German Cinema (Questions for Feminism)
By Julia Knight.
Description
There were virtually no women film directors in germany until the 1970s. today there are proportionally more than in any other film-making country6, and their work has been extremely influential. Directors like Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Ulrike Ottinger and Helke Sander have made a huge contribution to feminist film culture, but until now critical consideration of New German Cinema in Britain and the United States has focused almost exclusively on male directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders.In Women and the New German Cinema Julia Knight examines how re...
ISBN(s)
0860915689, 9780860915683
