GERM 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: New German Cinema, Oberhausen Manifesto
18 Mar 2017
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1945: german film industry is almost dead. Exile: mass exodus of approx 1500 directors, actors, cameraman, technicians etc. People opposing nazi propoganda ministry had been mobbed out or were sent to concentration camps. Nazi collaborators not welcome in film industry. 1945-49: initially, allied forced (us, gb, f, su) took over german film industry, they were interested in market. Opas kino ist tot = grandpa"s cinema is dead. German film (heavy, liberal, socially critical, tolerant, critical of german past) More commercialized, competes with us (us films have 80-90% of. Social aspects (audience"s perspective and values and stats) Implied message: less educated = more prone to fall into propaganda. Is it still justified when killing millions of people. Coming to terms with something someone you love did. Even someone you think is good can be trapped into doing something bad. Do they still need to learn a lesson and be punished when they didn"t fully understand what they were doing was wrong.
