Film and Society

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This paper analyzes three directors, Douglass Sirk, R.W. Fassbinder and Todd Haynes and their respective films. The paper looks at the combined effects of these films as a social critique of 1950's small town America to provide insights or social commentary into the era.

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"Film can play a significant role in the ways which society can twist and look inwardly upon itself. At times, it is only in art, through being shown these images of ourselves, that we can fully see ourselves. Many artists, novelists, philosophers and literary critics, among others, have attempted to hold up this mirror to society. Most recently, films have added themselves to this growing list. In film, often directors approach this relationship between movies and society, and critique the functions of our social reality through film. The directors Douglass Sirk, and the film All That Heaven Allows, R.W. Fassbinder and the film Fear Eats the Soul and Todd Haynes in his Far From Heaven all utilize the genre of the melodrama to incorporate social critique into their views of 1950's suburban America. Sirk, Fassbinder and Haynes all have aspects of this social critique in..."

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