The Distribution of Emotions
Fassbinder and the Politics of Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9854969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-220 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2011.585086 |
| OpenAlex | W2123750439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
From the very beginning, cinema has been accompanied by an aesthetic utopia: the utopia of an image that in one and the same act permits a world to be understandable in its legality and experienceable as a physical-sensual being-in-the-world. It can be traced from classic film theory—e.g., the writings of Eisenstein and Benjamin—to recent developments in aesthetic thinking, such as the work of Rancière, where it reappears as the “Politics of Aesthetics.” This essay proposes to reexamine Fassbinder's early filmmaking in the light of this “Utopia Film.” It argues that Fassbinder's staging of the group, especially in Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), can be understood as an attempt to show how the intertwining of desire and dominion in personal relationships mirrors social power structures. Beware of a Holy Whore is a thoroughly political film because it transforms an intellectual analysis of these structures into an aesthetic experience for spectators
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dominion · Filmmaking · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Principle of legality · Utopia · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |