“Capitalism Has No More Natural Enemies”

Abstract

Distinction between conceived and lived space; Exclusivity of commercial, art cinema in national film culture; Films of the new german cinema, generation of 1968; Films, coolly observed and sober, a concern for reality; Insecurity of life, roll back of german welfare system in films; Kohler's feature bungalow, the quintessential berlin school film; Representations of german society, response to social conditions; The berlin school, Capitalism has no more natural enemies; The berlin school, and the german film industry; Unchallenged dominance of capitalist order, in contemporary germany