Table of Contents - 6[-]Introduction: A Work Upstaged by Life? - 8[-]1. Fassbinder Representing Germany - 14[-]2. From Vicious Circles to Double Binds Impossible Demands in the Field of Vision - 46[-]3. Murder, Merger, Suicide The Politics of despair - 74[-]4. The BRD Trilogy, or: History, The Love Story? THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, LOLA and VERONIKA VOSS - 98[-]5. Fassbinder, Reflections of Fascism and the European Cinema - 130[-]6. ...wie einst? LILI MARLEEN - 150[-]7. Frankfurt, Germans and Jews The City, Garbage and Death - 176[-]8. Beyond 'Schuld' and 'Schulden' IN A YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS - 198[-]9. Franz Biberkopf's/ex-changes BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ - 218[-]10. Historicising the Subject A Body of Work - 238[-]Appendix One: A Commented Filmography The House That Rainer Built - 262[-]Appendix Two: Fassbinder's Germany 1945-1982 A Chronology - 300[-]Appendix Three: Bibliography - 320[-]Notes - 342[-]Index - 390
