Fassbinder's Germany
Rainer 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...
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Rainer 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.
Introduction: A Work Upstaged by Life?71Fassbinder Representing Germany132From Vicious Circles to Double Binds: Impossible Demands in the Field of Vision453Murder, Merger, Suicide: The Politics of Despair734The BRD Trilogy, or: History, The Love Story? The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lola and Veronika Voss975Fassbinder, Reflections of Fascism and the European Cinema1296...wie einst?1497Frankfurt, Germans and Jews: The City, Garbage and Death1758Beyond 'Schuld' and 'Schulden': In a Year of Thirteen Moons1979Franz Biberkopf's/ex-changes: Berlin Alexanderplatz21710Historicising the Subject: A Body of Work237Appendix 1A Commented Filmography: The House That Rainer Built261Appendix 2Fassbinder's Germany 1945-1982: A Chronology299Appendix Three: Bibliography319Notes341Index389
