{"product_id":"fear-eats-the-soul-angst-essen-seele-auf-9781839021794","title":"Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s \u003ci\u003eFear Eats the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAngst Essen Seele Auf\u003c\/i\u003e, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much younger Moroccan migrant worker. Set in Munich during the 1970s, the film melds the conventions of melodrama with a radical sensibility to present a portrait of racism and everyday hypocrisy in post-war 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 kitschiness, Fear Eats the Soul may be Fassbinder’s finest film.  Laura Cottingham celebrates Fassbinder’s achievement, placing \u003ci\u003eFear \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEats the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to his extraordinarily prolific career in theatre, film and television. Her analysis pulls back the thin curtain that separated his work from his tumultuous life. She also explores the director’s debt to the lush Hollywood melodramas made by fellow German Douglas Sirk, especially \u003ci\u003eAll That Heaven Allows\u003c\/i\u003e (1955). In a detailed scene-by-scene analysis, Cottingham shows how Fassbinder managed to combine beauty and tenderness with fierce political critique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword to the 2020 Edition 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 Credits Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49413219746135,"sku":"9781839021794","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839021794.jpg?v=1730519456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fear-eats-the-soul-angst-essen-seele-auf-9781839021794","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}