Searching for the Self in Fassbinder’s In a Year with Thirteen Moons Rebecca Harkins-Cross June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rainer Werner Fassbinder epitomises the figure of the true auteur. Mythologised as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, the legend surrounding Fassbinder – his inhuman prolificness, his tempestuous per...
The Third Generation Darragh O’Donoghue June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film, Der stadtstreicher (The City Tramp, 1966), the director enters a public pissort and sneers at his derelict anti-hero (Christoph Roser). Public toilets also provide an o...
Hollywood, Germany: The Longing of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss Adam Bingham June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although with regard to career chronology Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) marks the culmination of Fassbinder’s so-called “BRD (Budesrepublik Deutschland) Trilogy”, its narrative in fact positio...
Fox and His Friends Colin Browne June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films create an intriguing dialogue between subject and spectator where opposing fabrics of the social and personal are profoundly interwoven. It is not enough to presume that an exch...
The Conscious Collusion of the Stare: The Viewer Implicated in Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul Julian Savage June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film In a scene from Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul, Emmy, an aging, widowed German national, and Ali, a much younger Moroccan immigrant, sit together at an outdoor café. They are encircled by an arrangement of yel...
