1. Fassbinder's Films are Made to Provoke and Unsettle, No
For Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the motivation behind creating films, as he did so prolifically between 1966 and 1982 , was essentially political. It was through this medium that he felt most able to contribute to the debate over the ever-changing internal politics of his nation, Germany, and to the universal debate over sexuality and gender roles that was emerging as laws and taboos on these subjects began to be reassessed and liberalised. ... In a country that he considered too conservative, conformist, spießerhaft' and charged with latent violence' (Elsaesser, 1996: 25), he al...
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