Julia Knight (2)

"From Library Journal
The new German cinema of West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s is usually defined as the work of a select group of male film directors, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, and others. However, there is also a group of fine German female filmmakers of the same generation, whose films bear the same intense concern for sociopolitical questions and alternative images that are the hallmarks of their male colleagues. Yet their work is critically ignored or marginalized, despite the fact that during this period West Germany had proportionally more women filmmakers than any other film-producing country. The author details the political, social, economic, and institutional conditions she believes led to this neglect. Knight argues that these women gave rise to a whole feminist film culture and produced a critically acclaimed women's cinema. This book covers new territory, but, as a scholarly endeavor written from a feminist viewpoint, it is recommended for academic and subject collections only.
- Marianne Cawley, Kingwood Branch Lib., Tex.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc."
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