Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: A Work Upstaged by Life?
  • 1. Fassbinder Representing Germany
  • 2. From Vicious Circles to Double Binds: Impossible Demands in the Field of Vision
  • 3. Murder, Merger, Suicide: The Politics of Despair
  • 4. BRD Trilogy, or: History, The Love Story? The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lola and Veronika Voss
  • 5. Fassbinder, Reflections of Fascism and the European Cinema
  • 6. ... wie einst? / Lili Marleen
  • 7. Frankfurt, Germans and Jews: The City, Garbage and Death
  • 8. Beyond 'Schuld' and 'Schulden': In a Year of Thirteen Moons
  • 9. Franz Biberkopf's/ex-changes: Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • 10. Historicising the Subject: A Body of Work
  • Appendix 1 Commented Filmography: The House That Rainer Built
  • Appendix 2 Fassbinder's Germany 1945-1982: A Chronology.