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New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts Allan Boesak The great wide open isRediscovering a momentous cinema movement, its canonization, and its recasting through global discourse. The last of the so called new waves in film, New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s represents much more than a national phenomenon; it impacted and was influenced by films from around the world. Filmmakers such as the famous troika of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders, as well as directors, such as Margarethe von