Feel-Good Fassbinder
...Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972)
Intersectionality is one of the most popular contemporary modes of academic analysis, and few filmmakers are more ripe for this perspective than Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The most interesting thing about his work are the contradictions brought forth by various aspects of identity coming together, either within one person or in an ensemble. Unlike a lot …
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