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Article: Big-screen TV. (German film industry)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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What's the most important date for postwar German film? 1962, the year of the Oberhausen Manifesto, in which young representatives of a "new German film" rejected the commercial offerings of "Dad's cinema" of the '50s? 1982, the year in which Rainer Werner Fassbinder's death marked the demise, for many observers, of the terminally ill New German Film? Or perhaps the key date is 1992. With the revision of the law governing federal film subsidies in December of that year, market forces won out over critical considerations, and only films considered commercially viable were candidates for support from the Federal Film Board. Today, a film must be projected to draw 100,000 ...