Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, SubjectRainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a closer understanding of Fassbinder's career through a re-reading of his films as textual entities. Approaching the work from different thematic and analytical perspectives, Elsaesser offers both an overview and a number of detailed readings of crucial films, while also providing a European context for Fassbinder's own coming to terms with fascism. |
Contents
A Work Upstaged by Life? | 7 |
Impossible Demands in the Field of Vision | 45 |
The Politics of DESPAIR | 73 |
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN LOLA and VERONIKA VOSS | 97 |
The City Garbage and Death | 175 |
IN A YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS | 197 |
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ | 217 |
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