Critical Reflection 7 Fassbinder Representing Germany

J. Hoberman — “Why I Cannot Review Jonas Mekas’s Conversations with Filmmakers” http://j-hoberman(dot)com/2018/06/why-i-cannot-review-jonas-mekass-conversations-with-film-makers/
Jonas Mekas is a filmmaker based in New York City known for making experimental films about his own experience as an immigrant and about other artists in NYC who are often immigrants as well. J. Hoberman is a New York author and film critic who has spent most of his career writing about films in NYC, including many articles about Jonas Mekas’s films over the past few decades. What is the reason that J. Hoberman can’t review Jonas Mekas’s newest work “Interviews with Filmmakers”?
What does Hoberman say about —and why is he surprised by —the way that Mekas speaks about Leni Reifenstahl’s film The Triumph of the Will and Veit Harlan’s Jud Suss? (Here is a link to the description of the film Triumph of the Will — https://en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will ; Jud Suss is described in the article)
What does Hoberman say in the end of the article about what the historian Casper is looking for from Mekas?
Thomas Elsaesser — “Fassbinder Representing Germany”
What are some of the contradictions/things at odds about ‘cultural identity’ and ‘national identity’ in post World War 2 Germany that Elsaesser lists? How does it relate to the cinema of Germany?
Why would the German generation of the 1970s (born after World War 2 ended) want to shy away from German cinema altogether?
Elsaesser says that Fassbinder’s films are “another kind of self-presentation and persona” — What are some of the things that Fassbinder’s films — and his persona — straddle?
Relate any of the points made in either article to the films watched in class.
Ask a critical question about the text, or ask a question about a complex passage in either text.
Your reflections should demonstrate your understanding of the weekly readings and the films you have watched in class. The point of this assignment is to engage in close reading of theoretical texts and apply them to the analysis of the films.
Do not simply describe film, or detail out the plot and characters. Instead - discuss the films in relation to the concepts and themes brought up in the readings and vice versa
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