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Layne, Priscilla

 
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Synopsis

The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most popular film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the leading exponent of the "New German Cinema." The protagonist, Maria, attempts to navigate the poverty and sexism of immediate postwar Germany through her relationships with men, including the Black American G.I., Bill, only to discover that she has been a pawn in a power game between her husband and her lover, the industrialist Oswald. Yet Maria is also complicit in racism and white patriarchy, a fact barely registered in scholarship until now. Priscilla Layne draws on archival research, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Critical Whiteness Studies to expand on the role of race and gender in the film.

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À propos de l'auteur

PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.

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