New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

Marco Abel is Willa Cather Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He specializes in critical, poststructuralist, and (neo-)Marxist theory in addition to film theory and German film history. He is the recipient of an American Academy in Berlin Prize and, in 2019, served as the Dirk Ippen Fellow there. Jaimey Fisher is professor of German and of cinema and digital media at the University of California, Davis. He has held two fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and was awarded a German Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

"The New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s has often been perceived as nationally introspective, primarily concerned with the legacies of the country's recent past. This excellent compilation of original and illuminating essays revises and expands this perception and productively locates the New German Cinema in its international and transnational contexts, highlighting in the process some often neglected filmmakers and films. Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton Critically reimagining the historical framework and thematic possibilities of New German Cinema to include less conventional filmmakers, films, topics, forms, and global influences, the stunning collection of essays that spans New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts presents an illuminating return to one of Europe's most important film movements. Olivia Landry, Virginia Commonwealth University