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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On Translating Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Cinema between Autobiography and Social Criticism | |
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| "The kind of rage I feel": A Conversation with Joachim von Mengershausen about Love Is Colder than Death | |
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| "At some point films have to stop being films": A Conversation with Hans Gunther Pflaum about Fear Eats the Soul | |
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| "I've changed along with the characters in my films": A Discussion with Hella Schlumberger about Work and Love, the Exploitability of Feelings, and the Longing for Utopia | |
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| "This is the only way we can do films here: by making them without worrying about losing money": A Conversation with Wolfram Schutte about The Third Generation, Cinematic Politics, and a Strategy against Resignation | |
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| "Reacting to what you experience": Ernst Burkel Talks with Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
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| "I make films out of personal involvement, and for no other reason": A Discussion with Hans Gunther Pflaum about Berlin Alexanderplatz and Lili Marleen | |
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| "Why these problems with Franz Biberkopf?": A Discussion with Klaus Eder about the Reactions to Berlin Alexanderplatz and about Film Treatments of the Third Reich | |
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| "I'm a romantic anarchist": A Discussion with Frank Ripploh about Veronika Voss and Querelle | |
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| Fellow Filmmakers Pro and Con | |
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| Imitation of Life: On the Films of Douglas Sirk | |
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| ...Shadows, to be Sure, and no Pity: A Few Random Thoughts on the Films of Claude Chabrol | |
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| The German Cinema Is Being Enriched: A Few Thoughts about a Wonderful Film, Jane Is Jane Forever, by Walter Bockmayer | |
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| Chin-up, Handstand, Salto Mortale - Firm Footing: On the Film Director Werner Schroeter, Who Achieved What Few Achieve, with Kingdom of Naples | |
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| Michael Curtiz - Anarchist in Hollywood?: Unorganized Thoughts on a Seemingly Paradoxical Idea | |
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| The List of My Favorites | |
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| Hitlist of German Films | |
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| Alexander Kluge Is Supposed to Have Had a Birthday | |
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| Projects and Controversies | |
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| Credited Debit, Debited Credit: On Gustav Freytag's Novel Debit and Credit and the Aborted Television Version | |
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| My Position on Garbage, the City, and Death: A Statement | |
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| "Philosemites are anti-Semites": An Interview with Benjamin Henrichs about the Reactions to Garbage, the City and Death | |
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| "Madness and terrorism": Conversations with Gian Luigi Rondi about Despair and The Third Generation | |
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| The Third Generation | |
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| "The walls are closing in on us birds of Paradise": From a Conversation with Renate Klett about Political Developments and Germany in Autumn | |
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| "I'd rather be a streetsweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany": A Conversation with Der Spiegel about the Politics of German Film and Fassbinder's Announcement That He Intended to Leave the Country | |
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| Introductory Remarks on a Projected Feature Film, Cocaine | |
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| Literary Past / Cinematic Present | |
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| "Images the moviegoer can fill with his own imagination": A Conversation with Kraft Wetzel about Effi Briest | |
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| The Cities of Humanity and the Human Soul: Some Unorganized Thoughts on Alfred Doblin's Novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz | |
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| Preliminary Remarks on Querelle | |
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| Monologues and Confessions | |
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| "Of despair, and the courage to recognize a utopia and to open yourself up to it": Two Monologues and a Text on Despair | |
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| In a Year of Thirteen Moons | |
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| Answers to Questions from Schoolchildren | |
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| Hanna Schygulla - Not a Star, Just a Vulnerable Human Being like the Rest of Us: Disorderly Thoughts about an Interesting Woman | |
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| The Sad Eyes of Cannes | |
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| Notes | |
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| Filmography | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |