1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Considerations
3. Confirming a Secular World Order: Ingmar Bergman's The Silence
4. A Moving World: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
5. The Creation Of the Social: Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy
6 The Social Visibility of Corporeality: The Rebel Youth Films in the Fifties
7. Fiction Between Representation and Quotation: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Garbage, the City and Death
8. Conclusions