Cultural Controversies in the West German Public Sphere: Aesthetic Fiction and the Creation of Social Identities

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 The Cases
	1.2 Some Words on Methodology
		1.2.1 Translations
	References
Chapter 2: Theoretical Considerations
	2.1 The Political Foundations of the Social
		2.1.1 The Imaginary Dimension of Social Reality
		2.1.2 The Political Beyond Institutionalized Politics
		2.1.3 Fiction and Aesthetics: Acts of Subjectification
	2.2 Constituting Meaning in the Public Sphere
		2.2.1 The Public Sphere and Social Reality
		2.2.2 Opinion-Forming Media
		2.2.3 The Feuilleton: Interface Between the Arts and the Social
	References
Chapter 3: Confirming a Secular World Order: Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence
	3.1 An Overview: The Issue with Censorship and the Material
	3.2 The Paradigm of the Art’s Autonomy
	3.3 Sexuality and the Order of Representation
		3.3.1 Metaphoricity
		3.3.2 Iconicity
	3.4 Résumé
	References
Chapter 4: A Moving World: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
	4.1 Defining Freedom (Differently)
		4.1.1 The Dystopian Paradigm of Political Mobilization
		4.1.2 Performing Nineteen Eighty-Four Allegorically
	4.2 The World as Its Future
	4.3 Résumé
	References
Chapter 5: The Creation of the Social: Rolf Hochhuth’s The Deputy
	5.1 The Deputy in Context
	5.2 The Aesthetics of Immediacy
	5.3 Political Commitment
	5.4 The Presence of the Past
	5.5 Résumé
	References
Chapter 6: The Social Visibility of Corporeality: The Rebel Youth Films in the Fifties
	6.1 Methodological Particularities
	6.2 Youth as a Liminal Figure
		6.2.1 The Wild One
		6.2.2 Blackboard Jungle
		6.2.3 Rebel Without a Cause
		6.2.4 Rock Around the Clock
	6.3 The Aesthetics of Presence/Appearance
		6.3.1 The Wild One
		6.3.2 Rebel Without a Cause
		6.3.3 Rock Around the Clock
	6.4 Résumé
	References
Chapter 7: Fiction Between Representation and Quotation: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Garbage, the City and Death
	7.1 Chronology
	7.2 The Material
	7.3 1976: The First Debate
		7.3.1 Left Identity in West Germany
		7.3.2 Toward a Postmodern Paradigm of Interpretation
		7.3.3 The Paradigm of the “Prohibition of the Image”
			7.3.3.1	 Representing the Other–An Act of Structural Anti-Semitism
			7.3.3.2	 The Primacy of Context
		7.3.4 Résumé
	7.4 1984: Interlude
		7.4.1 Coming to Terms with the Past
		7.4.2 The Failure of Representation
		7.4.3 Résumé
	7.5 1985: The Fassbinder Controversy
		7.5.1 In Support of Garbage, the City and Death
			7.5.1.1	 The Role of Post-Structuralism
			7.5.1.2	 The Non-Jewish Addressee
			7.5.1.3	 Configuring a Critical Identity
		7.5.2 The Opposition to Garbage, the City and Death
			7.5.2.1	 Against Normalization
			7.5.2.2	 Whose Prerogative of Interpretation?
		7.5.3 In-Betweenness
		7.5.4 The Controversy as Metaphor: The Meta-Debate
			7.5.4.1	 The Rift that Divides the Social
			7.5.4.2	 The Transformation of Jewish Identity
			7.5.4.3	 Re-Imagining the Social
		7.5.5 Résumé
	7.6 Fiction and Social Creation
	References
Chapter 8: Conclusions
	References
Index