... feelings of malaise are augmented by employing specific cinematic techniques and challenging established ideas on the gaze'. Furthermore, I will explain how Fassbinder, who believed that positive images are elaborate utopian deceptions and [ ] prefers an educative pessimism' (Medhurst, 1996: 20), developed the melodrama genre to suit his creative needs. One reviewer has stated that one of Fassbinder's greatest abilities ... the lower middle classes, the cinema viewer, into addressing our own prejudices by highlighting our narrow-mindedness and, in this case, the Nazism which lies dormant ...

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