Fear Eats the Soul: ( Angst Essen Seele Auf )

Name: Fear Eats the Soul: ( Angst Essen Seele Auf )
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ISBN: 9781844570713

ISBN-10: 1844570711

ISBN-13: 9781844570713

Edition: 2005

Authors: Laura Cottingham

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In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (1974) an aging cleaning woman, Emmi (Brigitte Mira), marries a much younger, immigrant Moroccan mechanic, Ali (El Hedi ben Salem). Set in Munich during the 1970s, Fear Eats the Soul melds the conventions of melodrama with a radical sensibility in order to present a portrait of racism and everyday hypocrisy in postwar Germany. It is a film about the way conventional society detests anything and anybody unfamiliar--but also a film about the hopes and limits of love. Intricately directed, beautifully performed, and designed to show Munich life in all its shabby kitchiness, Fear Eats the Soul may be Fassbinder's finest film. Laura Cottingham…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 5/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 86
Size: 5.47" wide x 7.53" long x 0.26" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



A Career of Despair


The Theatre and Its Anti-Teater


An Imperfect Realism


Mirroring Douglas Sirk


The Story of a Marriage


'Fear Eats the Soul'


Notes


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