Gods of the Plague

Gods of the Plague German Gtter der Pest is a 1970 West German blackandwhite drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Kaja Silverman, author of the scholarly article Fassbinder and Lacan A Reconsideration of Gaze, Look, and Image, wrote that the film holds subject and ideal image at the most extreme distance from each other and that, hence, attests most eloquently to the latters recalcitrant exteriority. She further wrote that the character of Margarethe sustains her identity through constant reference to an external representation. Commenting on the scene in which she sees herself in a poster of a face of a blonde woman. Silverman stated that it is presumably a blownup advertisement. It has also been noted that the film is replete with homoerotic symbolism.The film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection in 2013 through its Eclipse series as part of a box set together with Love Is Colder Than Death, Katzelmacher, The American Soldier, and Beware of a Holy Whore. ........

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