... its own ethics and morals, it is precisely his extension and development of the Hollywood melodrama genre that facilitates this. From childhood, Fassbinder devoured great works of 1950s Hollywood melodrama, and one of his inspirations was film director Douglas Sirk. So great was his respect for the genre that FETS is loosely based on one of Sirk's films called All that Heaven Allows ... (1955) . While in FETS, Fassbinder has kept to the pre-defined rules of melodrama, permitting the film to be classified as such, the genre simply did not provide him with the full intellectual scope to d...

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