Class Relations

dionysus67

September 20, 2019 00:01

New German Cinema's fascination with 'Americanization' takes a relatively, by the standards of Huillet/Straub, conventional turn, close though to Fassbinder's stylized love/hate relationship to America. Kafka's novel is translated into sparse imagery in harmony with de-dramatized conflicts between authority and dignity of the self. Interestingly, the shooting in Germany, critically brackets America's mythical icons.