Alienation in (New German) Cinema
Abstract
In West Germany, the New German Film movement joined the political and social practice of the 1968 movement by presenting narrative representations that problematized the present and its relationship with the Nazi past and did not correspond to the public discourse on (West) German national identity. These representations were characterized by a national sense of “Heimatlosigkeit”/ “homelessness” stemming from two traumatic experiences of Germany’s recent past: National Socialism and the division of Germany. However, the productions the New German Cinema also showed cases of lack of identity on a personal level as a result of exclusionary identity discourses involving the demarcation and rejection of differences in gender, class, or race, which prevented the social recognition of these “other” subjects.
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