Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...pessimism that often shades into despair. Influenced by Brecht, Marx, Freud, and the filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Douglas Sirk, he worked in a number of cinematic genres, often mingling politics and melodrama. Fassbinder also wrote, produced...